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Extreme Agile: Managing Fully-Distributed Teams [presentation]
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It is challenging—if not impossible—to find local experts in low-level Linux or specific open-source software projects. However, this isn’t a challenge with a fully-distributed organization which has this talent worldwide. So the challenge becomes how to effectively manage, motivate, and... |
Alan Bennett, Linaro
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Business Analysis: From Interviews through Implementation[presentation]
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The keys to delivering better software lie in understanding what customers want―even when they are unable to articulate what they want―and being able to create a system that will improve the end users’ work. This is why your starting point should be understanding the differing, and... |
Barry Harvey, Florida Virtual Campus
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The Business Analyst Role on Agile Projects[presentation]
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Agile—a single word that sparked unprecedented confusion in the technology world. When it went agile, did your organization throw out your business analyst team? Have they banned all requirements documentation? Are teams struggling to see the big picture? Brian Watson has encountered... |
Brian Watson, VersionOne
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Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference West 2015: Emergent Design: History, Concepts, and Principles[presentation]
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Software design is about change. A good design facilitates adding features—and adding new developers to the team. Yet any change to the code impacts design and can damage existing functionality. Without design idioms and practices, the code can degrade into a maintenance nightmare... |
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
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Conflict: To Know It Is to Love It[presentation]
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We all talk about conflict. We all experience it. But do we really understand what causes it and how we deal with it? Do we have any idea what to do about it? Much research and study has been done, but that doesn't help when you're in the middle of conflict. You don't have time to... |
Doc List, Doc List Enterprises
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Be Fast on Your Feet: Kick Back and WATCH the Board[presentation]
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Have limited time monitoring complex projects? Need to be fast on your feet during your teams’ standups? It’s a daunting task to keep track of the current work in flight. Steve Dempsen shares a mnemonic technique―WATCH—to help you think of and articulate critical questions to ask on the... |
Steve Dempsen, Capital Group
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Mobile App Testing: Design Automation Patterns You Should Use[presentation]
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In mobile app development, better test design is important to project velocity and user satisfaction. Jon Hagar explores underused or poorly practiced test design automation approaches that you should employ in development and testing. Jon begins by defining the domain of mobile app... |
Jon Hagar, Grand Software Testing
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Incorporating User Experience into Early Agile Cycles[magazine] Chris Nodder explores the emerging need to focus on a software app's user experience. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to perform some basic user experience analysis as long as it is done early and tested throughout a project’s lifecycle. |
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How Do You Recruit Team Members with Agile Mindsets?[article] The traditional ways of finding employees are changing. If you want to get a role that will make you happy to contribute to the team, you need to rethink the way you apply for roles. If you are the resource manager, change how you recruit. This article focuses on the qualities you should be exemplifying or looking for if you want to form a team with an agile mindset. |
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User Story Points versus Man-Hours: Estimating Effort Better[article] Effort estimation is a major challenge for all the stakeholders of a project. Most people generally underestimate situations that may block progress and consider only the best-case scenario for a project. Your choice of estimation method may not be helping, though. Which would be better for your team: estimating by man-hours or by user story points? |
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STAREAST 2015 Interview with Mike Sowers on the Future of Testing [interview]
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In this STAREAST interview, Mike Sowers discusses the future of testing. He touches on how DevOps, agile, continuous integration, and continuous testing have changed the field. |
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Why DevOps Changes Everything: An Interview with Jeffery Payne[interview]
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In this interview, Coveros CEO and founder Jeff Payne explains why DevOps is changing everything. He talks about how DevOps has to be incorporated as a complete culture change, as well as the differences between good and bad DevOps implementation. |
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Turn Up Your Agile Noise[article] Usually noise has a negative connotation, but in this sense, noise means something that increases the team progress (i.e., velocity) and output (i.e., quality). Chaos is the negative side of noise and decreases velocity. Teams should know the importance of agile noise and handle the chaos in a right way at the time of transformation. Let’s explore agile noise and its benefits. |
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What Are the Key Components of an Effective Test Strategy?[magazine] In this FAQ column, Lee Copeland defines a test strategy as a high-level plan to achieve specific test objectives and outlines the components an effective strategy should address. |
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Why Adopting Agile Won’t Magically Reduce Your IT Budget[article] Of course, all companies would like to reduce their budgets. But cutting back in the IT department can have unintended consequences. This article looks at two of the more well-adopted cost-cutting approaches, the software factory and distributed teams, and goes into how they can help and hurt your company. |
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