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Open Cloud Will Make Business SHINE
William El Kaim describes an Open Cloud Model based on agile principles and driven by an independent user community to define it further. He provides a sketch of a potential Cloud Operating System. He also defines the SHINE principles for transforming IT into BT (Business Technology).
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The Elephant in the Room: Using Brain Science to Enhance Working Relationships
The new brain science (social neuroscience, positive psychology, and imaging techniques) give us tools for understanding and enhancing the ability of men and women to work together. Companies like Deloitte & Touche and IBM have seen financial results including increased retention of women by training their managers to use gender intelligence.
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Agile Japan 2009
Agile Japan 2009 was held in Tokyo on 22 April 2009. The event drew over 200 participants under the slogan of “developing the next-generation software development leaders.” This was the first full-scale event on Agile held in Japan with support from Agile Alliance.
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Building an Agile Team
Building an agile software development team is not easy. Many managers and team leads hire technically capable people, throw some form of an agile process at the team, and hope that everything works as well as the literature says it does. This approach is not only unrealistic, but is prone to failure. This article will describe the components of a successful team and how we built this team.
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Improving the Performance of Automatic Configuration Management Processes by Encouraging Human Intervention
In this case study, the pattern of automatic processes interlaced with human intervention provided bwin with an instrument to raise process efficiency in CM drastically. Furthermore, successes of the incorporation of human factors into change management was an increased visibility and appreciation of the context and importance of change amongst team members and stakeholders across the company.
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Bringing in Social Content to Custom Applications with Apache Shindig
This article discusses how an OpenSocial implementation, Apache Shindig, can be used to alleviate some commonly-encountered issues with implementing OpenSocial gadgets. Topics covered include the OpenSocial standard, Shindig architecture, how Shindig can be used to bring social networking content to an application, and usage of Shindig for OpenSocial enablement of the Gypsii social network.
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Burndown Analysis for Managing Productivity & Schedules
Managing the productivity and the schedules on a project is always a big challenge due to the complexities involved in taking the decisions fast. We attempt to use the “Burndown” information to address this issue. We show how a burndown chart comes in handy when a Project team is faced with the tough questions on the issues pertaining to Schedule, Resource Management and Productivity.
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Excerpts from an Interview with James Bach
Following are the most relevant excerpts from the interview with James Bach at Oredev 2008. He covers topics like: engineering, why we should be telling success stories, opening our minds to other scientific domains, automated testing and exploratory testing.
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Agile Lessons from a Management Guru
Deming was one of a select group of thought leaders who have shaped modern management over the last century. He is best known for the impact he had on Japanese businesses with his teachings on design, manufacturing, sales and quality. The first three of Deming's fourteen points are examined in detail in the context of Agile software development.
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Virtual Panel: The evolution of bug trackers
Bug (issue) tracking systems have become a standard tool for any organization that develops software and have evolved greatly in the last years. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with people from JIRA, FogBugz, Basecamp and MantisBT about this evolution and the future developments in this field.
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The Role of Project Managers in Agile
Agile, as per books does not talk of role of manager but talks of a coach/facilitator. This article first explains the role of project manager in general in any industry and then tries to map it with the role of coach/facilitator in Agile. During this discussion, the article also tries to widen the scope of being a coach/facilitator.
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Making Scrum Stick: Overcoming Anxiety And Fear
While a team can grab on to something as simple and effective as Scrum quickly, the associated changes can cause worries. There are common issues that occur when adopting Scrum as well as nuances that will almost inevitably crop up. By being aware of these issues you can be prepared for them or, perhaps, not feel too bad that you are experiencing them yourself – they are common.