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Take a Hike: Death March Projects and the Ice Age Wilderness Trail[magazine] Dave and his friend Bob hiked Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail and returned home with more than just sore legs and hiking experience. Learn some of the project management tips Dave picked up while adventuring in the wilderness. |
David Katauskas
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A Kind of Magic[magazine] A letter from the Better Software magazine editor. |
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Perception Management: (And Why You Should Leave It to Magicians)[magazine] To build and sustain credibility, good project managers focus on managing expectations and leave perception management to magicians. Explore the difference and find out why. |
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FAQ: What Questions Should Software Tester Certification Students Be Able to Answer?[magazine] In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Ed Weller answers one of the questions students ask him most often. |
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Taking the Risk: Exploration over Documentation[magazine] The loudest voice in the room might push for a stable, predictable, repeatable test process that defines itself up front, but each build is different. An adaptive, flexible approach could provide better testing in less time with less cost, more coverage, and less waste. |
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Six Steps for Implementing Agile across the Organization[article] After facing difficulties attempting to transform a group of twelve skilled people into a self-organized agile team, Ove Holmberg learned some valuable lessons on what it takes to implement agile within an organization. In this article, Ove presents six steps for a successful agile implementation. |
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How to Rule a Self-Organizing Team[article] Matthias Bohlen shares with us the importance of self organization. As a manager, you must set time or organizational boundaries that serve a purpose and let team members do what they think is appropriate and necessary within those boundaries. |
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Agile-Enabled Continuous Improvement: An Interview with Bob Galen[interview] Agile coach Bob Galen helps teams continuously improve and avoid getting stuck, complacent, or worse—regressing. By following some essential patterns, your team will learn how to spot the warning signs that lead to regression and ensure that everyone stays productive and happy. |
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From One Expert to Another: Matt Barcomb[interview] Janet Gregory and Matt Barcomb are presenting "Patterns for Team Collaboration: Toward Whole-team Quality" at the Agile Development Conference West 2013. In this interview, they discuss the value of patterns and the meaning of "whole-team quality." |
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Why NoSQL Matters and What Configuration Management Experts Need to Know About It[magazine] NoSQL is a new approach to data storage that addresses many problems associated with relational databases. Many highly popular websites—including Facebook, Netflix, and Digg—are using NoSQL to crunch large volumes of data. Eugene Dvorkin gives us insight into why NoSQL is important and what CM experts need to know about it. |
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Testing the Requirements of Collaboration: An Interview with Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan[interview] Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan informed us in this interview that collaboration is king, and we should end the separation of development and testing, while putting everything under a single development umbrella. Jeff also looks beyond the benefits of collaboration and TDD and takes some stabs at the future. |
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Lessons Learned from Ancient Wisdom: A Software Review Story[magazine] Lessons learned long ago from reviews and inspection can be effective today, particularly in collaboration within agile teams. Learn how an organization used review techniques as part of its agile collaboration, including the advantages and potential problems of this ancient wisdom. |
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Enterprise Agility vs. Lean Delivery: An Interview with Mik Kersten[interview] Mik Kersten recently sat down with us to discuss the challenges and the benefits that adopting lean's principles brings to projects of all sizes. While challenges will vary due to the size of the enterprises lean is being applied to, the goals—and hopefully the outcomes—remain the same. |
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Agile ALM for Delivering Customer Value: Getting Started[article] In this first part of a two-part series, Mario Moreira writes that a reasonable application lifecycle management (ALM) product will have a common user interface for utilizing the ALM functionality. It will also include a meta-model and process engine to parse and share information across and amongst the various functions within the ALM framework. These technical needs must be accompanied by a strong business case for delivering higher customer value and new approaches for seamless integration. |
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Agile 2012 - Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman - Discover to Deliver[article]
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In this podcast, Bob Payne speaks with Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman about their new book, Discover to Deliver. Using lean startup and agile delivery, Mary and Ellen give a compelling strategy for building products the right way and with high quality. |
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