It's not quite the same as growing plants, (project running late? use some miracle grow!) but feature growth is an interesting topic among agilists. This is a great chart on how features are grown into products. The growth of a feature

This is a great article on h ow Microsoft assembles feature crews for success . It's kind of interesting because you can see bits of agile development in there. :)

This is a great article on how software development is not like bricks. It sort of reminds me of Barry Boehm paper on the essence of software and how it's difficult to make great software.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Beta 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available for public beta at MS Connect . The Configuration Manager 2007 SDK Beta 2 contains documentation and code samples to support the following core features: ...

Looks like a Patterns and Practices : Team Development with TFS Guide (Final Release) was released on CodePlex in PDF format that discusses using team development using Team Foundation Server . Some teams internally have been looking for ways to apply...