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The Current Direction of Agile
This article focuses on some of the recent trends within the Agile community by briefly describing some alternatives to today’s well known Agile processes. Particularly focusing on estimation, forecasting deliverables and the increased impact Lean manufacturing has had on the Agile community.
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Deployment is the Goal
When we write software, we're very good at getting requirements and turning them into code. To turn that beautiful code into working software we need to deploy and test it. Often, we fail to emphasize the latter as well as the former. Do you have a backlog of "code complete" software waiting to be deployed, tested, signed-off and made live?
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Layered Architecture for Test Automation
In test automation, code involved in testing is not only test logic, but also a bunch of other supporting code, like URL concatenation, XML parsing, UI, etc. Test logic can be buried in this unrelated code, which has nothing to do with test logic itself, making test code hard to read and maintain. In this article, the layered architecture of test automation is presented to solve this problem.
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Virtual Panel on Software Architecture Documentation
Software architecture documentation is an important part of the enterprise application development process. In this virtual panel discussion, InfoQ spoke with panelists Len Bass, Grady Booch, Paulo Merson and Eoin Woods about documenting the software architectures especially in Agile software development environments.
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Collaborative Leadership and Collaborative Management
What is the role of a leader in today’s dynamic environments? Does traditional management provide value in a market that requires agility and adaptability? In this article, we propose a leadership and management framework that fits well with the current need for innovation and distributed decision-making.
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The Dark Cloud: Understanding and Defending against Botnets and Stealthy Malware
Botnets are the latest scourge to hit the Internet and this article defines a botnet (a collection of distributed computers or systems that has been taken over by rogue software), examines the botnet life cycle, and presents several promising anti-botnet defense strategies including canary detectors, white lists, and malware traces.
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Coping with Change on Scrum Projects
This article surveys the expected variation of different roles in the Agile organization and proposes techniques with which to better handle the transition to Agile methodologies from traditional Waterfall. The following roles are discussed in this article: Customers/Stakeholders, Product Management, General Management, Project Management, Developers and Quality Assurance.
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Refactoring Automated Functional Test Scripts with iTest2
In programming world, refactoring has become a highly frequent used word among programmers. Programmers make code more readable and design more. IDEs come with support for various refactorings. Testers who develop or maintain automated test scripts usually do not have that kind of luxury, but share the same needs. ITest2 is a tool that brings refactoring to the testing community.
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Project Metrics for Software Development
Software project success has always been the goal of the industry; however the metrics that helps us measure the success have been as diverse as they could be. Depending on the particular methodology that you follow the set of suggested metrics will not have anything in common. Carlos provides a set of metrics that he and his teams were able to use independent of software methodology.
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Book Review: Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making
One of the responsibilities of self-organizing teams is to take decisions that respect everyone’s opinion. This book has some great examples in coaching the team to navigate through difficult discussions so they can maintain their speed without endangering their success by suspending or ignoring critical issues.
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Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)
IBM Rational and InfoQ published an eBook, Scaling Agile with C/ALM, "dedicated to all of the functional and dysfunctional organizations that are eager to break down the organizational and cultural silos, and become a finely tuned software delivery machine." The eBook explores the barriers to team integration and scaling and then shows, in detail, how to overcome these obstacles.
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The Hidden Face of Agile
There are intangibles that result from adopting Agile development techniques. The hidden side of the transformation, so to speak – the changes in perceived values of interpersonal relationships, the enhanced necessity for trust, the soon-obvious need for enhancing cross-site communication inefficiencies are examined in this article.