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Hypersensitivity To Tool Use In The Agile Community
Steve Ropa challenges agilists on the use of tools in agile software development, and InfoQ seeks further opinions on "individuals and interactions over processes and tools".
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InfoQ User Survey 2012 - 14 Questions to Help Us Get to Know You
InfoQ would like to better understand your information needs: the type of content you find interesting, the kinds of tools & technologies you are using, and how you interact with the site. Please help us by taking our 2012 user survey - the survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.
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Lean Startup Machine Rumbles into Toronto
The Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is an intensive workshop where people can learn and experience what it's like to work in a Lean Startup environment. At LSM, teams have to start with an idea and rapidly validate or invalidate their assumptions until they find an audience willing to pay for their product. Recently, LSM came to Toronto...
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2011 State of Agile Survey Results Show Agile Adoption Stable
VersionOne have recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2011, and as always it gives an interesting insight into Agile adoption and trends.
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Mikado Method For Refactoring Legacy Software
Daniel Brolund presented the Mikado method in a talk-cum-workshop here in Agile India 2012. This proposes a simple method for agile teams faced with poor legacy code, which needs to be refactored in pieces as and when new goals arrive.
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Fred George On Programmer Anarchy
Fred George shared his insights about moving beyond Agile, a state he calls “Programmer Anarchy”, at the Agile India Conference on Day 1. Along with a few personal examples from his experience at Forward Technology he explained how this can lead to a very productive environment for solving complex problems, with substantial increase in business results.
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Who is agile Book Released
Coach, blogger and community catalyst Yves Hanoulle has published a weekly series of profiles of Agile community leaders and influencers since June 2011. They attracted such interest that he has turned them into a book, which is now available from Leanpub.
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Agile's Next Wave: Transforming the Business
A recent Forrester report gives evidence to the advance of agility into the business world. This article reviews this trend and some of its potential implications.
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Finding a Better Way for Management
Continuing the series of news items investigating the recent Stoos Network launch event, Shane Hastie spoke with Roy Osherove and Franz Röösli about their experiences at the event, their ideas coming out of it and ways to help make a change in management practices going forward.
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Naresh Jain On Agile In India
Naresh Jain is the founder of Agile Software Community of India, as well as the chair at the upcoming Agile India conference. We got in touch with Naresh to know more about adoption of Agile methodologies in Indian companies and how the path looks going forward.
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Secure Code Development: A Casualty With Agile?
Agile teams are known to produce reliable and high quality code quickly. However, it is also a fact that pressure to deliver quickly might result in short cut reviews, curtailed testing and lack of attention to secure code. Is secure development as good as wishful thinking with Agile?
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Stoos Network - Catherine Louis and Deborah Hartmann Preuss Discuss their Expectations
Continuing the series of interviews with Stoos Network Event participants, Shane Hastie spoke to Catherine Louis and Deborah Hartmann Preuss about their experiences at the event and their hopes and expectations for the future of the Stoos Network. The Stoos Network aims to encourage shift in organisational management from traditional hierarchical leadership toward more collaborative approaches.
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Cloud Wars – U.S. Army Using Agile Platform For Cloud Migration
According to CGN (Government Computer News) the U.S. Army’s Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center (SEC) has deployed a platform for the quick development and migration of applications to the private cloud. The engineers are using OutSystems’ Agile Platform for this purpose.
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Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams
Interruptions are something that every team has to deal with and, if not managed appropriately, they can potentially have a detrimental affect on their ability to deliver. In a recent post on the Agile Advice blog, Mishkin Berteig described seven options that teams could consider to deal with interruptions when using Scrum or iterative Agile approaches.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection
VS11 will provide new tools that expedite unit testing, refactoring, and easier communication across the entire development team. These new components are intended to benefit everyone from developers, and testers to those deploying and maintaining the resulting application.