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The Integration of Agile and the Project Management Office
Agile and the Project Management Office (PMO) are no longer considered diametrically opposed phenomena. With an ever-changing business landscape, organizations are required to adopt more nimble approaches. In many cases, Agile is more suitable within the PMO than people think.
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Java 7 Features Which Enable Java 8
In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.
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Deploying it right with AppVeyor CI and PowerShell
Deploying real applications is hard. Questions arise when there are configuration settings in the Registry, custom folders structure, or you have to deploy to a web cluster. In this article we look at setting up continuous delivery for a solution consisting of ASP.NET web application and Windows service to a staging and production environments using PowerShell remoting and AppVeyor CI.
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What Do You Look For In a Servant Leader?
In this article, let’s discuss the kind of qualities, preferences, and non-technical skills you might need in a servant leader, your potential Scrum Master, agile project manager, potential account manager, or whatever role you need filled.
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Interview and Book Review: Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook
Matthias Marschall contributes powerful tactical information for all users of Opscode Chef, from the beginner up to expert, in his recently published book "Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook". Beginners will gain progressive knowledge using open source tools and free services. The expert will find a starting point automating the configuration of production applications in data centers.
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El-Habya'a” or The Technical Debt
Technical Debt is not always a bad thing but it needs to be carefully managed especially as it increases with time at a geometric rate. Technical debt also deserves a special attention in Agile projects. This article suggests that technical debt is a risk and it can be managed using standard risk management process and presents an outline of this process in the context of Agile projects.
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Open Agile Adoption in Theory
In this 3rd article in the series about Open Agile Adoption Dan Mezick presents the theoretical background to the approach and explains why the techniques described in the other articles work to help achieve sustainable agile transitions.
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Creating a sales dashboard for ASP.NET and MVC with ShieldUI Chart
In this article David Johnson demonstrates the differences between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC by integrating the same charting control in each.
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DevOps - Pivoting Beyond Pockets
Traditional Infrastructure Operations roles are no longer scaleable. The traditional system admin or the network engineer or the engineering roles such as storage engineers are rapidly changing. The difference between a developer and operations engineer are becoming more and more invisible and will eventually dissolve. This is part of a massive shift in the IT Infrastructure Industry.
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JSIL: Challenges Met Compiling CIL into JavaScript
This article introduces JSIL, a .NET to JavaScript compiler, and contains details on the difficulties encountered while compiling CIL code into cross-browsers JavaScript.
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JavaOne 2013 Roundup: Java 8 is Revolutionary, Java is back
JavaOne 2013 was recently held in San Francisco, from September 22 to September 26th. The festivities kicked off Sunday, with a Strategy Keynote by Peter Utzschneider, Nandini Ramani and Cameron Purdy.
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Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition
The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.