Approaching a Conflict in Style Conflict is inevitable at work. Sooner or later, you will disagree about what to test, when to test, or how long to test software. How you and the person you disagree with approach the conflict affects both the outcome and how you feel about the exchange. In this column, Esther Derby explains some of the ways people approach conflict and how they affect solutions and relationships. |
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SOA and Agile Development: Continuous Integration And Testing IT organizations view the adoption of agile development methods as a way of bringing an "integrated team" approach to the product development lifecycle where everyone is focused on early, frequent demonstrated results. The second shared goal is service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is an approach to deliver integrated component-based ecosystems that are assembled to efficiently execute critical business processes. The goal of SOA is to be flexible and adaptive to the constantly changing business climate. These two productive approaches, when applied concurrently, are setting the stage for the next evolution in the deployment of technology to enhance business performance and results. |
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A Pony in the Pile - A Curmudgeon's View of SOA Adoption I have been in and around Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a long time. I have built distributed systems for fifteen or more years. I have scars from the Great Web Service Euphoria of '99 to '01. I have gray hair from dealing with the security and management problems of building real services in real networks. I have followed the standards as they have matured. I have observed and worked with clients as they considered and confronted SOA. Here is my conclusion: real SOA is so complex and organizations are so far from ready for it, that the only sound SOA adoption strategy demands agile program management techniques. Nothing less will suffice to guide and sustain an organization through the SOA evolution. |
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Agile Services In An (SO)Architected World Because one of the core stated objectives of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to increase business and IT alignment and IT's flexibility in meeting changing business needs, on the surface it would seem that SOA and agile methods are a natural fit. And within the SOA model of service production, distribution and consumption, use of agile development methods clearly has great opportunity for effectiveness on the consumption side of the equation. However, the approach by which a suite of generally reusable services within an SOA are defined and produced requires a cross-project perspective that could be viewed as running counter to a typical agile development approach. Some amount of up-front architectural thought must go into initial service definition to prevent those services being developed from becoming solely project-centric. |
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Improve Service-Oriented Architecture Development with Agile QA Testing Practices Service-oriented architectures (SOA) promise to address many technical challenges by allowing developers to incrementally deliver new business capability while leveraging existing assets. By using agile practices during QA testing, SOA development teams can turn potential roadblocks into opportunities. |
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Agile SCM: It’s All Related In this article, the authors the use of basic patterns that can help build a software configuration management process that works well with your agile development environment. They discuss how codeline policy, private work spaces, smoke tests, private system builds, integration building, unit testing, and regression testing all work together to enable you to maintain an active development line. |
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Jared Richardson - Just Ship It - No Fluff Just Stuff 2006
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Jared Richardson, author of the book Just Ship It, offers advice that can allow nearly any shop to make there process more agile. |
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Ramnivas Laddad - AOP - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Ramnivas Laddad talks about Aspect Oriented Programming, which isn't just for security and logging anymore. |
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Brian Sletten at No Fluff Just Stuff 2006
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Brian Sletten, a Washington, D.C.-area consultant, talks about NetKernal and the Semantic Web. |
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Approaching the Implementation of CM When landing an airplane, the approach is considered quite important. If the approach vector is off even by 1%, the plane may careen off the other end of the runway. Also, if the approach is incorrect, effort such as fuel and time is unnecessarily expended and wasted, especially if circling must occur. |
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