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Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide
"Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide" is a good starting point for newbies as well as for those facing the challenge of changing organizations with complex release processes.
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Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development
A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development tells the story about applying agile and lean principles in a large scale software development program for the HP laserjet futuresmart firmware. An interview with with two of the authors, Gary Gruver and Mike Young, about agile principles, managing change, collaboration between distributed teams, and the benefits of using agile.
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The Role of the Development Manager
A Development Manager has a number of responsibilities, but the primary one is to get a product out the door. Filling this role requires a large skill set and this article discusses what skills are needed, and not needed, to be an effective Development Manager.
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Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success
The typical software delivery project captures requirements numerous times, describes tests in multiple places, is indiscriminate of what is in a particular build, and often requires a large amount of analysis to know who is doing what and why. Dave West looks at the problems this causes and argues for holistic, integrated ALM approach.
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Automated Builds: The Key to Consistency
If there's one thing software developers are good at, it's automating things that used to be done manually. Making life easier for everyone by letting computers handle tedious repeatable tasks, allowing people to focus on what matters to them is what we’re here for. However, development teams often neglect the one audience that would benefit the most - themselves.
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Interview with Yves Hanoulle on the Agile and Lean Mindset
At the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference, Yves Hanoulle did a session about the agile and lean mindset. InfoQ spoke with him on the mindset, his experiences with pair working, and how he collaborates in the agile community.
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Book Review: ATDD By Example
“ATDD By Example” value proposition was to be an introductory hands-on guide to implementing and successfully applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) from zero. Despite doing a reasonable job of summarizing and/or pointing to several test-related practices required for any successful agile tester, the book ends up trying and failing to be all things to all readers.
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Tradeoffs: Giving up Certainty
While organizations operate under an illusion of certainty, tradeoffs are inevitable. Giving up certainty does not mean giving up predictability. This article examines four flow choices for software delivery and presents three choices for IT Delivery: Throughput, Flexibility and all out speed.
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Why the Agile Project Manager is the Secret Sauce for Development Projects
The Agile project manager is sometimes referred to as the “secret sauce” for software development projects? Leo Abdala describes a recent development project at a Fortune 50 company where the Agile PM instilled confidence with and produced a value-generating product for the client
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A Proposal to Enhance the UML Notation
Raul Rugiero proposes an enhancement to the UML notation whereby requirements and test cases, in particular acceptance tests, are strictly related. Agile methodologies highlight this aspect basing themselves on test driven approaches. The notation of UML use cases may be enhanced in order to allow enhanced UML tools to properly handle links between use cases and tests.
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Why Agile Methods Work
There is great economic value in looking at software processes from an execution perspective to examine their strengths and weaknesses. Keeping this perspective in mind keeps us at a safe distance from abusing buzzwords like Agile methods without really understanding the underlying principles that make them work.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2012
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Tutorials, Keynotes, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Big Data and Analytics, Continuous Delivery,Cross Platform Mobile, Dynamic Languages, Java Renaissance, Loose Concurrency & CAP Theorem Today, Mechanical Sympathy, NoSQL and many more!