Steve Berczuk

Steve Berczuk

Steve Berczuk
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Zoominfo
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berczuk
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Development

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7 years 12 months
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Steve Berczuk is a Principal Software Engineer with experience as a manager, Scrum Master and technical lead in Boston, MA. The author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration, he is a recognized expert in software configuration management and agile software development. Steve is passionate about helping teams work effectively to produce quality software. He has an M.S. in operations research from Stanford University and an S.B. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and is a Certified ScrumMaster. Contact Steve at [email protected] or visit berczuk.com and follow his blog at blog.berczuk.com.

My Contributions

Book Review: Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any Team
Book Review: The Agile Mind-Set: Making Agile Processes Work
How Using Agile Can Help with Risk Management
From One Expert to Another: Dan Wellman
Automation: Process Comes First
Agile Software Configuration Management: Communications and Documentation
Problem Solving: Deadlines and Context
Survival Rules and the Lamp Lighter
Patterns and The Storytelling Animal
Have the Orders Changed?
Paper versus Electronic Dashboards: Goals and Values
Agile Code for Agile Teams
Book Review: Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Software Engineering or Software Craftsmanship: Do We Care?
Agility (and Learning Opportunities) Everywhere
Questioning before Answering
SCM Tool as Collaboration Tool
Definitions
Agile or Not: How to Get Things Done
More on Being Done
What Does "Being Done" Really Mean in Software Development?
Continuous Learning, Coaching, and Learning from Others
On SCM and Tools
Thoughts on The Lean Startup
Why SCM Patterns Is in Patterns Format
Experience and Learning
Branching to Distraction
Happiness and Agility
Specialization, Generalization, and Effectiveness in Software Teams: Clinical Metaphors
Tips, Habits, Customs and Agility
Better: More Parallels Between Medicine and Agile Software Development
Displaying Build Numbers in Grails Apps
Mission Possible: ScrumMaster and Technical Contributor
What Are You Doing?
Recent Writings (Dev Ops and Testing)
Agile Teams Care about Dev Ops
The Value of Really Dumb Tests
Book Review: Continuous Delivery
Agile SCM: Basics for Small Teams
What Agile QA Really Does: Testing Requirements
Risks of Manual Integration Testing in the Context Rapid Change
To Scrum, Prepare
End-of-Release Branching Strategies
Agility Throughout the LifeCycle: The Rise of DevOps
The Checklist as Empowerment tool
Book Review: Lean Architecture
Are You Done Yet?
Book Review: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Motivation Visibility, and Unit Testing
Measuring Performance for Teams
Things about Release Management Every Programmer Should Know
Planning is a Gerund
Book Review: Modular Java
Are You Agile Enough?
CM as Communication and Coordination Enabler
The Checklist Manifesto as Agile Primer
Agile Portfolio Management
Estimation Poker
The Indivisible Task
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is Done
Tracking what Matters with Burn Down Charts
The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM—and the Rise of Lean SCM
How Does Software Development Fit in with ITIL's Configuration Management Database?
IDEs and Build Scripts
Sometimes, You Just Need to Slow Down
Beware the IDE: The Risks of Standardizing on One IDE
Agile SCM - Review of 2008 and Predictions for 2009
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Getting Started with Agile SCM
Defining Agile SCM: Past, Present & Future (2008)
Breaking News: Build Still Important, but Deployment Is King!
Product and Project Software Configuration Management (SCM)
An Agile Approach to Release Management
Transparency improves Governance
Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008
Testing's Role in the Software Configuration Management Process
Testing is Essential to Agile SCM
Lean-Agile Traceability: Strategies and Solutions
Lean Development Principles for Branching and Merging
Feedback without Fear
Lean Metrics for Agile Software Configuration Management
The Renaissance Builder
Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward
A Christmas (Configuration) Carol (Abridged)
Agile SCM and Requirements
Agile SCM: Martial Arts Principles
Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
Agile SCM: It’s All Related
"Agile" Change Management: From First Principles to Best Practices
Is Continuous Integration Just Another Buzz Word?
Agile SCM – Build Management for an Agile Team
Applying Agile SCM to Databases
Continuous Staging: Scaling Continuous Integration to Multiple Component Teams
Software Configuration Management Patterns
Best Practices of Agile SCM
Agile SCM 2005 - Reflecting back on the year in books
Private Developer Workspaces: Where the Development Process Meets SCM Process
Agile SCM January 2006: Looking Ahead
Evolving beyond Version Control for Agile Development
Balancing Individual versus Collective Code Ownership
Breaking With Tradition
The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change
Building For Success
The Importance of Software Builds: Building Earnestly
The Future of Agile Configuration Management: 2006 and Beyond
The Illusion of Control in Software Configuration Management
The Agile Difference for SCM
Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design
An Agile Perspective on Branching and Merging
National Treasures of Agile Development
Requirements-Based Development: A Software Configuration Management View
The Trouble with Tracing: Traceability Dissected
Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
Agile Codeline Management
The Need for Agility in SCM
Software Configuration Management Resources

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