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Agile Teamwork: Three Ways to Minimize Handoffs[magazine] Rather than rely on large handoffs between specialties, high-performing Scrum teams learn to do a little bit of everything all the time during a sprint. To do this effectively, teams must make three changes: shift from writing about requirements to talking about them, reduce the size of handoffs and make them more frequently, and pay more attention to the size of the product backlog items that they bring into their sprints. |
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True Performance: Moving Beyond Basic Load Testing[article] Basic load testing is valuable, but it's important to move past simplistic efforts. Here are some ways to gain more accurate metrics from your load tests. |
Jim Holmes
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The Cloud and ALM: An Interview with Mik Kersten[interview] Mik Kersten and Heather Shanholtzer recently spoke about trends in cloud-based tools and how cloud technology affects application lifecycle management. |
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The Wisdom of Crowds[article] The "wisdom of crowds," or crowdsourced testing, can be a powerful tool if harnessed correctly. It also can backfire when tweaking user-facing functionality in a live environment, as a couple of big-name companies discovered. Tread carefully! |
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Management Myth #5: We Must Have an Objective Ranking System[article] An objective ranking system is unnecessary when trying to determine an employee's value, and it can even be detrimental to collaboration on teams. Providing feedback, facilitating knowledge building, and allowing them to contribute are three key ways to help your employees excel in their roles. |
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Becoming a Leading Manager[article] My most recent post, We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership, has struck a chord. That’s the good news. The bad news is I have not defined enough terms. Okay, I’ll attempt that now. And, thank you, gentle readers, for hanging in there with me, waiting for my crazy travel schedule this spring. I see these managers in the organization: |
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Regulation, Compliance, and Delivery[magazine] Regulatory compliance may seem daunting, and penalties for non-compliance can be severe. What is the QA professional’s role in making it work? |
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Requirements Modeling: An Interview with Joy Beatty[interview] Heather Shanholtzer interviewed Seilevel's Joy Beatty about the benefits of using visual modeling instead of traditional requirements documents and why writing good requirements might not be your best point of focus. |
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Building Highly Productive Teams: Factors that Influence Commitment-to-Progress Ratio[article] Aleksander Brancewicz addresses how to build a team that achieves a high commitment-to-progress ratio and presents the core skills and factors that influence this ratio. |
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Crowdsource Your Career[magazine] In today's tech-centric environment, there are many advantages to building a social network both online and "in real life." Here are some ideas to help you boost your career, market yourself, and add to your problem-solving toolbox by harnessing this "people power." |
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Test Terms You Really Need[magazine] Anyone interested in finding a testing glossary that already exists can use some great online resources. Defined here are several terms in common use that rarely or never make it into the "official" definitions. Finally, there are some terms in use that no longer support the underpinning technology and need to be either retired or expanded. |
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How Do You Know When It's Time To Go?[magazine] Whether you are in a toxic work situation, or you feel you are no longer performing effectively, sometimes you find yourself at a crossroads in your job and you have to ask yourself, "Should I stay, or is it time to move on?" |
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No Silver Bullet? Silver Buckshot May Work[presentation] b |
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Kata: Discover the Art of Practice to Master New Practices[presentation] Kata is a Japanese word describing detailed, choreographed patterns of movements one masters through practice. Unfortunately, in software development we use the term "practice" very loosely. |
Tom Perry, Visa Inc.
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Test-driven Development: It's All about Fluency[presentation] Test-driven Development (TDD) is more of a skill that requires repeated practice than a book-learning technique-more like learning a foreign language than implementing a precise process. |
Llewellyn Falco, DevelopMentor
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