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Us Against Them[magazine] How well does creating an opposing force serve to deliver on shared objectives within the same organization? A stronger argument may be to teach both business stakeholders and delivery personnel to reach across organizational boundaries to share not only the vision but also the methods used to achieve it. |
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Broken Windows, Broken Projects[magazine] A social experiment in the ‘80s found “Vandalism can occur anywhere once communal barriers are lowered by actions that seem to signal that 'no one cares.'" The same can be said for our software projects. |
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The System Behind The Behavior[magazine] Most managers are familiar with using feedback and coaching to help people improve their performance at work. But those aren't the only tools managers have. Sometimes, the most effective way to change individual behavior is to change something in the system. |
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Slicing Requirements for Agile Success[magazine] Agile teams need to analyze product requirements in enough detail to build, test, and deliver the right requirements in short time frames. For the many teams that struggle to define "just enough, just in time” requirements, here's help. |
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Four Paths To Predictable, Repeatable, Reusable Test Data[magazine] Modern applications operate in highly integrated environments, and critical systems rely on massive amounts of data that likely contain sensitive information. Discover useful strategies for preparing your baseline, handling interfaces, designing input data, and planning for output results. |
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ADP 2010 West - Ryan Martens - Rally Dev and the addition of Agile Zen[article]
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Good Idea! Now What?[article] A good idea is a valuable asset, and a lot of good ideas can be like a treasure trove. But what do you do with those ideas? Here, Esther Derby describes an idea maker who isn't very good at following through and then suggests four important things to remember to keep your own ideas from withering on the vine. |
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Continuous Delivery with Jez Humble[article] Jez Humble is the build and release principal for ThoughtWorks Studios and product manager for ThoughtWorks' release management and continuous integration tool Cruise. He's co-written a book that will hit shelves this year. In this interview, Jez talks about continuous delivery, collaboration obstacles, and the value of defining risk. |
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ADP West 2010 - Dale Emery - Resistance as a Resource[article]
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An Evaluation Framework for Continuous Integration Tools[article] Tools that enable continuous integration are vital to any agile project. Learn how putting together a well-planned evaluation process for the selection of those tools enables your entire team to work more cohesively, while eliminating the waste and damage that ineffective tools can cause. |
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Is Your Agile Audit and Compliance Process Really Agile?[article] In a previous column, George Schlitz proposed that process improvements, such as agile, require organizations to change process rules. Now George continues his review of agile in regards to compliance and auditing practices. What he's found is that changes to compliance and auditing rules may appear compatible, but the implementation process usually remains unchanged and conflicts with agile practices. |
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Agile? Waterfall? How About WetAgile?[article] WetAgile can be used to describe those projects, and people, that aren't quite agile, nor are they fully waterfall. While this might seem like seem like a negative, existing in "no man's land," the hybrid approach is sometimes may work fine, while on the path to full agile. |
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Moving Gradually to Agile Development and Scrum[article] Having troubles introducing agile development on your custom software development projects? Why not try moving to it gradually? One of the big ‘problems’ with Scrum is that project-related issues come to the surface early because the team must deliver potentially release-able software within a month. Those issues in combination can seem insurmountable to those new to Scrum. |
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Scrum Success in a Distributed Team Environment[article] In today’s work environments, research proves that distributed Scrum teams can achieve the same quality results as co-located teams, but relationships, communication and culture play important roles in the latter. About Scrum Since its inception in 1993, Scrum has become a more and more popular software development framework among organizations. In fact, a Forrester research study, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2008 discovered that more than half of the 2,227 surveyed software organizations take advantage of some form of agile methodology. Additionally, of all the agile methods that are being utilized, Scrum is by far the most popular model. |
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Lean-Agile Projects You Will Do Again and Again[article] How many times have you seen this scenario? Several years ago, someone created a spreadsheet to support the work of a department. They kept tweaking it, adding functionality; maybe even migrated it to Microsoft Access… and now it has become a mission-critical mess! And you can’t afford to let the employee move on to something else. |
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