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Ten Tips to Get Requirements Right and Make Stakeholders Happy[presentation]

Have you ever delivered an application with functionality that was not what the stakeholders really wanted-or needed? Have you ever discovered that you were listening to the wrong people?

Carol Askew, Intermountain Healthcare
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Project Managers[presentation]

It is easy to find a million ways that software development and project managers can let down their teams and their projects.

Ken Whitaker, Leading Software Maniacs
Mobile Apps: Breaking Down the Barriers[presentation]

Mobile application development introduces additional complexity when compared to building traditional applications.

Todd DeCapua, Shunra
Cloud Computing 101: Concepts, Benefits, Challenges, and Costs[presentation]

Cloud computing is a paradigm that makes the notion of utility computing a reality.

Arlene Minkiewicz, PRICE Systems
Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2012: EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax[presentation]

One key to specifying effective functional requirements is minimizing misinterpretation and ambiguity.

John Terzakis, Intel Corporation
Context-driven Leadership: How to Ride a Bull through a China Shop[presentation]

Software development projects are just different. They’re often high-risk ventures with extremely complex interrelationships, filled with uncertainties, dependent on scarce knowledge workers, and much more.

Kent McDonald, Knowledge Bridge Partners
The Paths to Innovation[presentation]

There are many paths to innovation. At one extreme, many large companies create research labs, staff them with world-class Ph.D.s, and set them working for years to solve complex technical problems.

Patrick Copeland, Google, Inc.
Sustainable Software Quality-at Warp Speed[presentation]

Businesses demand high levels of product quality, development productivity, planning reliability, employee satisfaction, and customer loyalty.

Richard Hensley, McKesson Health Solutions
Influence v. Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done[presentation]

How often have you been in a situation where you could see the solution and yet did not have the authority to make a change? You tried persuasion; you tried selling your ideas; you might have even tried friendly manipulation to get your way.

Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
The Blurred Boundaries Between Dev, Test, and Ops[presentation]

It's like watching a chase scene in a major summer blockbuster movie. You're totally focused on the action when suddenly you realize the background is a blurry mess.

Ken Johnston, Microsoft Corporation
Skipping Shortcuts: Convincing Clients to Take the Better Path[article]

Your clients may not understand why you follow certain practices as a project professional. They may encourage you to take shortcuts that they believe will save time, money, and difficulty. You know better, but how can you convince them?

Brad  Egeland's picture Brad Egeland
Agile Methodology for Team Rehabilitation[article]

This article is intended for CIOs and Software Directors who have disfuntional development teams. These problems are described in the article and companies that are currently using Waterfall can see how their methodology is part of the reason these problems exist. The article further shows how the basic principles of Agile Methodology can address and even resolve these issues. This article will also help companies already using Agile areas to emphasize in order to resolve team issues. This is a non-technical article and emphasizes organizational issues common in software development.

Steve Vaughn's picture Steve Vaughn
The Product Canvas The Product Canvas[article]

To help product owners and teams create new products, Roman Pichler has developed a new tool called the product canvas. The canvas has grown out of his work with product owners and product managers over the past ten years, and it's designed to be compatible with the business model canvas.

Roman Pichler
.NET Rocks promoter On the Road Again: An Interview with Richard Campbell[interview]

Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin took the time to answer some of our questions about .NET development, and its evolution over the years. Richard and Carl are travelling across the country on the .NET Rocks tour and will be making a stop at the 2012 Better Software Conference East in Orlando, Fl

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Darshan Desai Agile Done Right: An Interview with Darshan Desai[interview]

Darshan Desai spoke with us ahead of this 2012 Better Software Conference East session titled "Experience an Iteration: The Joys of Agile Done Right." Darshan shared with us some of the ways to maximize agile's benefits while avoiding pitfalls and hindrances along the way.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst

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