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Working Testing Tasks into the Product Backlog If you've worked on an agile project, delivering to production on a regular basis, then you've struggled with the challenge of fitting in all the big tasks—performance, security, usability, and compatibility testing. To make matters worse, over time it becomes more and more challenging...
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Michael Kelly, DeveloperTown
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Mowing the Lawn: An Application of Agility Anthony Akins explains how he used agile methods to modify the way he mowed his lawn. Learn how any project can benefit from using an agile approach and how large projects can be broken down into smaller chunks, each complete and with value.
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Manage Your Personal Project Portfolio One Step at a Time Can you take the best practices of agile and apply them to your personal life? You bet you can. Johanna Rothman writes on how she manages her personal project portfolio the same way she advise other people to manage their work project portfolios.
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How to Know When Things Are Really Done Do you know when your work is done? Are you sure your feature is done? How about your release? Do you know when it’s done? Leyton Collins has some suggestions for you, your team, and your organization on how to know when things are really done.
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How Visualization Boards Can Benefit Your Team While many teams can use help structuring their conversations, some teams also need some way to know whether the structured conversations that have taken place have provided sufficient information. Kent McDonald explains how using visualization boards can help in these situations.
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Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project's Future Project assessment and forecasting aren't magic. Payson Hall examines six factors that can increase the likelihood of project success.
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FAQ: How Can I Be a Better Product Owner? In this installment of FAQ, SQE Trainer Arlen Bankston answers one of the questions students ask him most often.
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An Agile Approach to Thinking Up Front about Requirements Thinking about interacting with the customer at the start of the project? Who would argue against that? Well, it depends on what you call it. It also depends on whether you then do it without the benefit of the rest of the project team. Here, Ulrika Park helps us see what an agile approach to thinking about the requirements might look like.
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Fix Your Agile Project by Taking a Systems View Kathy Iberle writes that when working on a project, you should take a systems view, which allows you to see the whole development system at once. When you put on your “systems view” glasses, you’ll see that you need to deal with the whole system, not just a single team’s part of it.
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How to Build a Successful Team: Analysis, Motivation, and Beyond It takes more than just gathering a bunch of skilled testers in a room together to make a great test team. Learn how to analyze individual tester types, motivate your team, and achieve success.
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