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Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation Mike Kelly explains the following heuristic approach to help ensure your testing is roughly inline based on orders of magnitude across the various types of automation. It’s not a method for measuring effectiveness. Instead it’s simply a “smell” to tell you when you might need to take a little extra time to make sure you’re focusing your automated testing efforts at the right level. |
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AgileDC Conference - Organizer Podcast at Agile2011
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Come join us at AgileDC on October 26th 2011. This not for profit regional conference aims to have a wide variety of talks, networking, open space, and is one of the few conferences to have a Government track alongside an Agile Engineering track. |
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Dependable vs. Irreplaceable We all like being in demand, feeling wanted, and being dependable. But, we forget that there is a thin line between being dependable and irreplaceable. The result is not only a loss of credibility but also a loss of opportunities |
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Do You Need Titled Architects for Your Agile Programs? Johanna Rothman received a variety of responses to her recent writing on agile architecture. In this article, she attempts to clarify her case for having an architect on some—but not all—agile programs, depending on a number of factors. |
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Are the Five CEO Temptations Limiting Your Leadership Potential? Becoming a CEO isn’t the ultimate goal for the most successful CEOs. It is a status that they use to achieve great things, and they face ongoing temptations that threaten their potential. Here, Laura Brandenburg takes a look at the temptations in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Temptations of a CEO that can limit the potential of not only CEOs, but also anyone in a leadership position. |
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Pair Programming in the Clink In this personal experience story, Daryl Kulak relates the day he spent behind bars. He was there to participate in a program that pairs prisoners with software developers “from the outside” to explore the art and science of agile software development. “It’s like a code retreat,” Kulak notes, “except it’s inside a prison.” |
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How Do Agile Rapid Iterations Improve Software Quality? An iterative agile approach improves the quality and production time for software projects of all scope and size. Learn how this "evolutionary" method improves both development and testing through open lines of communication and collaboration. |
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Path to Agility 2011 - Ken Schwaber - Scrum and the Product Owner
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Ken Schwaber and Bob Payne chat about the product owner (PO) roll and the complexity that can emerge when we ask too much of the product owner. This has always been a key role and we have sometimes dode the project a disservice by focusing the PO on the needs of development. |
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Plight of Product Owners in Medium and Large Organizations What prevents product owners in large organizations from functioning like product owners in startup companies, who quickly release new products in the market with lower budgets? |
Anupam Kundu
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Burning With Excuses We all know what it’s like to be frustrated with someone else when that person isn’t being as responsive as we would like. It’s especially easy to do when our own work or responsibilities are on the line. In this tale from Naomi Karten, she shows that a lack of response doesn’t necessarily mean a lack of care and explains how very important it is to have the full story before you get too worked up. |
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