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Improve Your Test Environments with Service Virtualization[magazine] Want to save money and time, expand your testing environment’s capabilities, and still get high-quality releases? Service virtualization provides virtual replicas of physical environments and databases. Its earlier-lifecycle defect detection just might change your company’s reality. |
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What Position Do You Play?[article] Micheleen Merritt explains that as an agile coach, you need to take into account all of the participants of a team, not just the developers. If you aren’t acknowledging the quality assurance analysts, business analysts, and product owners, you aren’t coaching the whole team. |
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The Science of Yielding Productivity: An Interview with Mike DePaoli[interview] Mike DePaoli sits down with us to discuss how project leaders, not unlike farmers, benefit from turning to science to give themselves the best chances at a bountiful harvest. We discuss how agile's preference for holistic approaches provides an organic opportunity for success across the enterprise. |
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Snapshot: A Team’s First Steps into Shared Ownership[article] Karen Favazza Spencer writes of the time her team members had to modernize and expand the capabilities of their legacy system. In this situation, Karen took on the role of ScrumMaster, implemented several helpful agile techniques, and empowered the team to share leadership of the project with management. |
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Culturally Sound Leadership: An Interview with Pollyanna Pixton[interview]
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Pollyanna Pixton shares why crafting a healthy and productive agile culture is so difficult, and how it relies heavily on the shoulders of team leaders. She stresses the importance of leaders not providing their teams with answers—but giving them the ownership to solve problems on their own. |
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How to Make Collocation Work for You[article] Gil Zilberfeld recounts his experience with collocation during his time at Typemock, and explains how collocation can benefit your team. In modern agile discussions, we struggle with how to work with distributed teams around the globe. The truth is that it’s easy to break stuff just by moving part of the team to the next room. |
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Agile Palooza DC - Ian Culling - Version One internal development and practices[article]
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Agile Palooza DC - Ian Culling - Version One internal development and practices |
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ADP West 2010 - Payson Hall - Risk, Reward and Public Sector Contracts[article]
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ADP West 2010 - Payson Hall - Risk, Reward and Public Sector Contracts |
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ADPEast 2010: Michael Mah—Agile Teams by the Numbers—Software Metrics and the Big Giant Database[article]
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Bob speaks with Michael Mah about agile and metrics at the ADPEast 2010 conference. |
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Getting the Most Out of Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team[article] Shane Hastie and Johanna Rothman explain the challenges that come with distance, be it cultural, social, linguistic, temporal, or geographic. If you work to reinforce your collaboration habits every day, your geographically distributed agile team will thank you. |
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Innovation Courtesy of Inspiration: An Interview with Jim Elvidge[interview] Jim Elvidge attributes the last thirty years of fun that he's had in his career to the same qualities teams should be built with today. Innovative products come from teams who are inspired to reach their full creative potential, and getting your employees there may be easier than you think. |
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Ram Srinivasan on the Benefits of Gamification[interview]
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Agile coach Ram Srinivasan shares his views on why gamification is so enjoyable for users—and so effective and even profitable for businesses. Learn how social connectivity, increased engagement, and even fun all combine to produce an exciting time in software development. |
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A Look Behind the Curtain: Debunking 12 Myths of Agile Development[magazine] When it comes to agile development, Allan Kelly has noticed a lot of misinformation being passed off as fact. In this article, he takes a closer look at twelve of the most common agile myths he has encountered while training new agile teams. |
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The $440 Million Software Bug[magazine] In August, Knight Capital Group lost $440 million in one day. But there weren’t any traders to blame—at least no human ones. The loss was the result of a software system upgrade gone awry. What can we learn from this and other software catastrophes in the financial sector, and how can we prevent them in the future? |
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Corporate University: Growing Software Development Talents[magazine] A company with powerful technology and costly equipment is still going to be stuck in a rut without the right personnel. Here, Galyna Datsiv spotlights the concept of corporate universities, where IT organizations can support their products, processes, and even customers by ensuring the growth of new talent and existing employees. |
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