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Mixing Roles in Scrum We put a lot of emphasis on being Renaissance workers, able to step comfortably from one job role to the next. But, as Mitch Lacey describes here, not all roles play nicely with each other, and trying to combine them may lead to disaster. |
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Building a Competitive Software Capability: Creative Destruction In this excerpt from Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability, Watts Humphrey and James Over explain why these changes must be a high priority for software companies and other organizations for whom knowledge is a valuable asset. |
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The Two Sides of Software Testing: Checking and Exploring Is testing about checking against system requirements, or is it about exploring the software? In this article, Elisabeth Hendrickson explains a valuable truth often clouded by this debate—good testing takes advantage of both of these approaches. |
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Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI Together CMMI and Scrum are two commonly used frameworks we have seen groups struggle with when using them together. This article describes how these frameworks aren't really at odds with each other and explains how implementation is the key to using them together. |
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Chatterboxes and Cave Dwellers Both introverts and extroverts can be valuable contributors of hard work and great ideas, they just go about accomplishing those things in different ways. Learn how these two groups of people coexist, what makes them tick, and how to help them flourish. |
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Getting Empirical about Refactoring Often when we refactor, we look at local areas of code. If we take a wider view, using information from our version control systems, we can get a better sense of the effects of our refactoring efforts. |
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Effective Leadership Communication In most workplaces, there’s an institutional hierarchy that may influence how we react in situations that require us to step up. Navigating effective communication means knowing when we should listen quietly to leaders and when we should challenge or question. |
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How the Rise of DevOps and the Private Cloud Will Change Development in 2011 Along with storage and testing capabilities, the cloud can, and will, help bridge the gap between development and IT operations. DevOps is gaining in popularity, and the acceptance of the cloud is one of of the reasons for its success. |
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The Crucial Role DevOps Plays in Change and Configuration Management Agile's core principles may have been originally intended at the software development, but the concept of DevOps has shown that agile's benefits can be experienced by a much larger audience. Collaboration between these two departments benefits just as much as anyone. |
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Agile (Line) Management Evidence shows that agile development done well can positively affect your ROI. But if these methods are so great, why doesn’t every team adopt them? Look to management for the answer. |
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