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Function Point Analysis Example: Hands on with Agile Development[article] In an earlier article, Dan Horvath explored some history and definitions of agile and how Function Point Analysis (FPA) can be used in the measurement of agile projects. Dan emphasizes that the definition of the project is critical to this process. In this article, Dan demonstrates the use of FPA in agile development through a hands-on example. |
Dan Horvath
December 18, 2012 |
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Management Myth #12: I Must Promote the Best Technical Person to Be a Manager[article] Managing requires a different skill set from technical work, yet many companies promote their best technical workers to management positions. Here are some things to consider when it's time to promote your technical workers. |
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Driving DevOps Through Shared Knowledge and Control[magazine] For development, a production application should be fully baked and not in what would be considered a “development” state. Tracy Ragan explains that frequent releases are a basic requirement of rapid development methodologies like agile and this impacts the way in which development teams and production control teams must interact. |
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7 Core Practices of Agile Test Automation[magazine] Software test automation has been around for a while, but it faces some specific challenges in an agile environment. Here are seven practices that will help you get the most out of your test automation within agile's short development cycles. |
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The Enterprise Product Owner: It Takes a Village[presentation]
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In classic Scrum textbooks, the Product Owner (PO) permanently hangs out in the agile team room, churning out a stream of user stories, regularly prioritizing the backlog, deciding color schemes for screen design-all while keeping the team |
Elena Yatzeck, JPMorgan Chase
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The Next Level of Agile: DevOps and Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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Mature agile organizations are introducing continuous delivery as a crucial step to realize their goal of delivering business value rapidly. |
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Specification-by-Example: A Cucumber Implementation[presentation]
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We've all been there. You work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. You build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. |
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Agile at Scale with Scrum: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly[presentation]
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Come hear the story of how a business unit at one of the world's largest networking companies transitioned to Scrum in eighteen months. The good-more than forty teams in one part of the company moved quickly and are going gangbusters. |
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Distributed Scrum: Dangerous Waters-Be Prepared![presentation]
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Even though team collocation is strongly recommended in agile methodologies, a distributed team is often required in the real world today. What is so important about collocating anyway? |
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A Big Helping of DevOps with Career Advice on the Side[presentation]
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For decades-with the exception of agile-dev followers-the IT community has continued to build and protect its departmental silos. |
Paul Peissner, CollabNet
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It's About Products Not Projects: Product and Portfolio Roadmaps[presentation] If you are managing your portfolio using projects, and not products, you may be missing opportunities to deliver more business value to your organization. |
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Scaling Agile at Dell: Real-life Problems - and Solutions[presentation]
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The transition from waterfall-based software development to an agile, iterative model carries with it well-known challenges and problems-entrenched cultures, skill gaps, and organizational change management. |
Geoffrey Meyer, Dell Inc. l Enterprise Product Group
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Transitioning to Kanban: From Theory to Practice[presentation]
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You're familiar with agile and, perhaps, practicing Scrum. Now you're curious about Kanban. Is it right for your project? How does Kanban differ from Scrum and other agile methodologies? |
Gil Irizarry, Yesmail
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Protection Poker: An Agile Security Game[presentation]
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Each time a new feature is added to a product, developers need to consider the security risk implications, find ways to securely implement the function, and develop tests to confirm that the risk is gone or significantly lowered. |
Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University
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Doing Agile in a Waterfall World? Without Breaking Your Neck[presentation]
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Although many of us want to use only agile practices, we often work alongside teams with strong waterfall traditions. |
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