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Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization[article] Too many managers believe in the myth of 100% utilization—the belief that every single technical person must be fully utilized every single minute of every single day. The problem with this myth is that there is no time for innovation, no time for serendipitous thinking, no time for exploration, and it often leads to a less successful organization. |
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Empowering Agile Teams[article] Teams, when truly empowered, will always make better decisions than any one individual. Where can you empower teams as you adopt agile? |
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Agile 2011: Ward Cunningham—Agile Manifesto, Ten Years Later and the Federated Wiki[article]
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Bob Payne chats with Ward about the tenth anniversary of the Agile Manifesto and his newest wiki project. |
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Taking DevOps Mainstream[article] In this article, Shawn Edmondson describes how the rise of DevOps can be measured right alongside the rise of cloud in its level of mainstream acceptance. Learn how DevOps takes a common sense approach to development while using agile methodologies and automation at the same time. |
Shawn Edmondson
December 28, 2011 |
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Agile Leadership for Mid-Managers[article] Len Whitmore explores how the growth of agile changes the roles, responsibilities, and titles of mid-managers more so than any other management group, because agile practices require more leadership and less of what is considered traditional management techniques. |
Len Whitmore
December 28, 2011 |
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Project Portfolio Management: An Interview with Johanna Rothman[interview] Johanna Rothman is a management consultant, regular StickyMinds.com columnist, and AgileConnection’s technical editor. Johanna talks about the year in software, the rise of project portfolio management, and whether we will continue to see organizations adopt agile in the new year. |
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Seven Ways to Make Testing Irrelevant on Your Team[magazine] Testers and developers can be friends. In fact, on teams working at a breakneck pace to deliver software, they must be friendly enough to rely on each other. However, there are a few sure-fire ways to ruin that relationship before it begins—and potentially make testing both irrelevant and unwelcome. Marlena Compton lists seven such ways here, along with suggestions for avoiding disaster. |
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Software for Good: The Maker Movement[magazine] Communities are sprouting up all over the world to provide an outlet for those who want to create new things and hack existing ones. In this article, Jonathan Speicher writes about one such group, HackPittsburgh, some of the projects he’s worked on, and the value the maker movement brings to those who work in the software industry. |
Jon Speicher
December 22, 2011 |
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The Zero-Defect Vision: Error-proofing Your Way to Quality[article] Bob Schatz helps you develop strategies to eliminate errors and prevent defects in your product or service. |
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Learning For Agile Testers, Part 2[magazine] In part one of our Learning for Agile Testers series, we addressed general "thinking" skills that go beyond technical competence and how learning these enhances the value you contribute. In part two, we discuss some specific technical skills that benefit testers and how to acquire them. |
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Alternative JVM Languages For Java Projects[magazine] Java Virtual Machine has become a successful platform for applications written in many languages, not just Java. Alternatives like JRuby, Scala, Clojure, and Groovy can be more concise and offer new ways to approach problems. |
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Software Project Managers: Know Your Business Case[magazine] Many professionals in the software industry chose to pursue software to avoid business schools and MBAs. In this article, Payson explains that some of that "Business BS" can be useful both tactically and strategically to software project managers. |
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Goodhart’s Law[magazine] Charles Goodhart stated: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." In other words, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." |
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What If Quality Shouldn’t Be Job One?[magazine] We live in a consumer-oriented society, where we are taught to expect that everything that we buy or create must be the best. Clearly, quality is considered to be a top-selling feature in many of the products that we buy. But what if it shouldn’t be? |
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Ten Proven Ways to Demotivate Your Team[article] In this lightning talk from STAREAST 2011, Randy Rice offers ten proven ways to de-motivate your team, make sure you're getting the very least productivity out of them, and potentially lose them altogether. |
Randy Rice
December 16, 2011 |
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