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Exercises for Building Better Teams
Have you ever seen a team perform so great that you wanted to join it? If you examine the values of such a team, you may discover a perfect balance of orientation on people and results. If you are trying to discover how far away your own team is from this state, read this article and try the exercises to find your own state of perfection.
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Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
In this article we take a deep dive into two popular bytecode manipulation frameworks: Javassist & ASM. Bytecode manipulation is used in Java libraries like Spring and Hibernate, most JVM languages and even your IDE. For this reason, and because it’s really quite fun, it is a valuable skillset to learn for performing tasks that are otherwise impossible. And once you learn it, the sky's the limit!
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InfoQ at 10
We know that software is changing the world, and we’ve come to see our impact as accelerating the software side of that change. With that passion, we started InfoQ 10 years ago, in the context of some unusual beliefs and concerns.
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Building a Team with Complementary Testing Skills
Imagine meeting with a group to implement a high-level test strategy, then coming back in six months and finding there has been little progress because the director-level executives have been trying to staff projects. I wish I could tell you this was uncommon. Today we'll talk about how the delivery team can acquire all the skills it needs to release software when the number of testers are low.
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The Volcano - Prioritize Work for Multiple Teams & Products
It is always a challenge to pick the correct priorities. Which one of work item A, B or C shall you do first, and why? Tomas Rybing presents the Volcano, a tool to visualize and prioritize work for multiple teams working with several products.
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Organizing the Test Team
The tester/programmer ratio continues to have more programmers than software testers. There simply are not enough testers to specialize as thoroughly as the programmers, which leads managers and executives scrambling to find a support, or rather an enablement model for the testing group. Learn how to effectively organize your test teams and how to determine the right model for your organization.
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Outsourcing Software Development to a Global Talent Pool: World of Help or World of Hurt?
Going offshore for software development: world of help or world of hurt? When outsourcing software development the country options are endless: India, China, Malaysia, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, and on and on…. what’s the right choice? The decision-making process is not easy and it shouldn’t be. Yousef Awad presents a checklist of key elements to consider.
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Partnering for Accountability: What’s Stopping You from Turning Your Dreams into a Reality?
The missing link between your current life and your dreams becoming your reality is simple: accountability. Most people have extreme difficulty holding themselves accountable to their life goals. The best way to get the accountability you need for lifelong change is by forming an accountability partnership. Here’s all you need to know.
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Going Through the Scrum Motions as Opposed to Being an Agile Jedi
The force awakens: is it Agile or are we just going through Scrum motions? Michael Nir speaker and Agile coach shares expert best practices; too much Scrum might lead us to the dark side of the force. Being Agile rather than doing Scrum – focus on what we want to achieve; getting the right products that our users want quickly, using fast feedback loops, and employing continuous removal of waste.
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Q&A with Shawn Callahan on Putting Stories to Work
The book Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan provides a process with a practical approach to master business storytelling; a leadership skill that helps to achieve results. It contains many stories that can help you to use storytelling for business communication and culture change.
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Four Benefits of Switching Your Contact Center Agent Software to WebRTC
Contact centers around the globe are running two sets of expensive software: CRM and Real-Time Communications. Tsahi Levent-Levi shows how, by integrating WebRTC, companies can become more flexible and save money. Using only a browser, with no additional software or plug-ins to install, call centers can distribute their work force around the globe.
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Taking Agile to Marketing: Process, Teams, and Success Stories
Agile Marketing, as a concept, has been talked about quite a lot in the recent past and it is much more than just a hot new buzzword. Bhoomi Mehta takes a brief look at what Agile Marketing is and how it works. She also delves into other aspects that affect marketing processes and projects to understand how they can help your organization get an edge over its competition.