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Essential Methods for Agile Project Success

Mark Balbes presents a framework for agile project management’s critical techniques. These techniques are required for successful agile development, where rapid requirements changes can be followed through with rapid development changes.

Continuous Integration Automated Database Update Process
Developers must have good feedback to ensure productivity. Most shops have a CI build process that allows the developer to quickly know if a build failed, and some shops have an automatic deploy of the CI build to provide website feedback. Lance Lyons writes about an approach to automating the update of databases in a CI environment that we currently use at Onlife Health Inc., a Brentwood, TN based subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee who specializes in personal health coaching.
Agile ALM—Opposites Attract
Agile and ALM are two terms that you don’t often see side by side. To most developers, agile means team interaction, customer collaboration, dynamism, and responsiveness to change. In contrast, ALM seems to imply the opposite of agile, with echoes of rigid procedures, inflexibility, and top-down process control. But are the agile and ALM approaches as contradictory as they first appear to be?
An Evaluation Framework for Continuous Integration Tools
Tools that enable continuous integration are vital to any agile project. Learn how putting together a well-planned evaluation process for the selection of those tools enables your entire team to work more cohesively, while eliminating the waste and damage that ineffective tools can cause.

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Interviews

Continuously Delivering Success: An Interview with Jesse Dowdle
Jesse Dowdle sat down with us recently to discuss the benefits that embracing "massive" continuous integration and deployment brings to testing. Jesse is presenting the session "Massive Continuous Integration and Light Speed Iterations" at the 2012 Better Software Conference East.
Project Portfolio Management: An Interview with Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman is a management consultant, regular StickyMinds.com columnist, and AgileConnection’s technical editor. In this interview, Johanna talks about the year in software, the rise of project portfolio management, and whether we will continue to see organizations adopt agile in the new year.

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