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Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince on Team Collaboration, Mingle and ThoughtWorks Studios
Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince spoke about the importance of feedback and collaboration in teams and keeping feedback going when scaling agile beyond single teams into larger organisations. Designing feedback into the process and keeping the processes people centric. They also discussed new capabilities coming in Mingle.
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Patric Palm on Hansoft and HansoftX
Patric discusses the state of agile adoption, the challenges faced by combined hardware & software organisations, features in the latest release of the Hansoft product and the launch of HansoftX, a cloud based fremium service planning tool.
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Damon Edwards: DevOps is an Enterprise Concern
Damon argues DevOps is most needed in the enterprise world, and suggests starting with self-service provisioning interfaces, service oriented mentality, designing tool chains and meaningful metrics. All based on his own experience on the field as a DevOps consultant.
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Markus Völter on DSLs, Modeling, MPS, Mbeddr
Markus Völter explains the concepts of the MPS Language Workbench, how it enabled the mbeddr project, approaches to DSLs and how to combine them, programs vs models, formal verification, and more.
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Jeff Patton on the Product Owner’s World
In this interview, Jeff Patton discusses the Product Owner role and points out that Agile has never been very focused on the customer. While Agile development excels at “delivery”, it struggles to support “discovery” (i.e. defining what the customer really needs). Also discussed are techniques such as Lean Startup and story maps and the importance of defining business value in an Agile context.
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Whats Happening with the AAFTT and Entaggle
Elisabeth talks about the current state of functional testing tools and the work being done by the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program and how it is influencing the direction of tools development in the testing space. She also describes the new community-based site for giving and getting professional recognition- Entaggle.
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Mik Kersten on the Role of Tasktop and Mylyn in Agile Development
Mik Kersten discusses the role of Mylyn and Tasktop in Agile development and how these tools return control to developers. Also: how Mylyn streamlines development in Eclipse.
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Joe Walker on Bespin
Joe Walker explains the browser-based source editor Bespin: the architecture and implementation, the collaboration features, new ideas for command lines, Canvas vs DOM, speed, extensibility, and much more.
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Nathaniel Talbott on Experiment Driven Design
Nathaniel Talbott discusses the concept of Experiment Driven Design.
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Christian Dupuis on SpringSource Tool Suite
Christian Dupuis, Principal Engineer with SpringSource, talks to Ryan Slobojan about SpringSource Tool Suite providing an overview of the tool and exploring key features including its Groovy, Grails and Roo support and Cloud Foundry integration. The interview also explores some of SpringSource's future plans for the product.
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Adrian Colyer on AspectJ, tc Server and dm Server
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer talks to InfoQ about AspectJ. The interview explores how products such as Spring Roo are using AspectJ, and how ideas from AspectJ helped SpringSource improve the Groovy compiler inside Eclipse. Colyer also discusses SpringSource's two server offerings, dm Server and tc Server, OSGi and Scrum.
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SpringSource's Ben Alex talks about Spring Roo, Spring Shell and Spring Security 3.0
Dr Ben Alex, The Project Lead of the Spring Roo code generator project, discusses using Roo on an existing project, building custom templates and add-ons for Roo, and how its capabilities compare to other productivity tools such as Grails. The interview goes on to look at the related Spring Shell project and discusses Spring Security 3.0, which Ben Alex founded.
