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This podcast offers a unique opportunity to listen to a recorded experience report from Mark Salamango and John Cunningham, based on their observations made at the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile 2006. Security monitoring and agile-based projects for the military are both discussed by Mark and John.

Some measurement programs with high aims fall short, languish, and eventually fail completely because few people regularly use the resulting metrics.

Studies have shown that the quality of the requirements is one of the most important factors in the quality of an application and also in the time and costs required to deliver a system.

Lightning Talks are nine five-minute talks in a fifty-minute time period. Lightning Talks represent a much smaller investment of time than track speaking and offer the chance to try conference speaking without the heavy commitment.

You've made a commitment to automate unit testing as part of your development process or you are spending precious resources for automated functional testing at higher levels. You may be asking yourself: How good are those tests anyway?

The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable techniques introduced by Extreme Programming.

While effective for modeling requirements, analysis, or design of a software system, UML diagrams are typically used in isolation or only for portions of a system.