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3 weeks until QCon New York: New Talks, Podcasts, & Workshops
Marking its 5th anniversary, QCon New York returns June 13-15. This is QCon New York’s last year holding the event in Brooklyn. Next year, QCon moves to a new venue in Manhattan.
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Using Lego to Teach Technical Practices
Explaining Craftsmanship techniques is hard, especially to Senior Management and Executives. Since understanding is usually key to a mindset shift and technical practices are the way to develop good quality software, it's very important to explain them. Mike Bowler facilitated a workshop on how to use Lego for technical practices during the 7th Agile Games Conference.
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Wrike Releases Agile Marketing Survey Results 2016
Wrike, a work management and collaboration platform company,recently surveyed 800 marketers about their use of Agile and released the survey results.
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Understanding Large Codebases with Software Evolution
InfoQ interviewed Adam Tornhill, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene, about software evolution and mining social information from code and how to use this to increase the understanding of large codebases, how to create a geographical profile of code, and the benefits that can be gained from techniques like mining social information and geographical profiling.
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Oracle to Close Java.net and Kenai.com Forges
Oracle has announced that the Kenai.com and Java.net forges will be closed in approximately one year; project administrators have been advised to request all their project data so they can continue to operate elsewhere. The move seems to be aligned to other similar decisions in the market, after sites like Codehaus and Google Code also announced previous closures.
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QCon SF 2016 Registrations Open, Program Committee Announced, & Last year’s Top 10 Lists
The 10th Annual QCon San Francisco, a practitioner-driven conference designed for software architects/tech leads/leaders who influence innovation in their teams, has opened registrations. QCon SF will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco and has tickets on sale for $1695 through May 14th. There will be a full 3-day conference from Nov 7-9 and two days of workshops from Nov 10-11.
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How Business Mapping Increases Agility at Lloyds Bank
Tony Grout and Chris Matts spoke about the emerging areas of business mapping and skills liquidity at QCon London 2016 and how they apply them at Lloyds Bank. They showed how they deploy these techniques and explained how they combine business strategy with the abilities and aspirations of people to improve collaboration between business and technical stakeholders. InfoQ interviewed them.
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Mike Cohn Explains How to Prevent Estimate Inflation
Mike Cohn explains how to prevent estimate inflation.
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Agile Alliance Technical Conference Videos Available
The first Agile Alliance Technical Conference was recently held. The conference had a strong focus on the strong technical skills needed to make agile software development effective and covered a wide range of technical topics. There were two keynote talks by Sandi Metz on the challenges to professionalism and Uncle Bob Martin on why it is so important. The conference videos are now available.
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Deep Mind Discloses Details to InfoQ about NHS Partnership amid Reports of Vast Patient Data Access
After months of awaiting details about the NHS and Google DeepMind partnership InfoQ gains insights into recent claims of widespread patient data access.
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Mobbing on an Article
At the first Mob Programming Conference a group of authors experimented with mobbing to write a news item about working in this way. This is the result.
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Microsoft Graph Unifies Access to All APIs
At the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco, InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with Gareth Jones, API architect for the Microsoft Graph API which aims at making life easier for developers by providing a unified API endpoint. With the prevalence of Microsoft products in most businesses around the world, it is interesting to see how Microsoft solves this issue at their scale.
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At Collision, Networking is King
At the 2016 Collision Conference in New Orleans, LA, networking is king. Beyond the massive room filled with start-ups is the opportunity for start-ups to checkout what others are doing and get a chance to meet with investors.
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Agile Games 2016 Keynote - Faster, Cheaper, Better Training Design
Sivasailam Thiagarajan opened the Agile Games 2016 conference with a keynote talk titled Faster, Cheaper, Better:Designing Agile Training That Delivers Results. He explained that learning requires both content and activities which together create engagement and learning that sticks. He discussed how to design more effective training classes.
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An Introduction to Six Startups at Collision
Out of the 630 startups at the 2016 Collision Conference in New Orleans, InfoQ had a chance to speak with six of them to find out about their products wand why they came to Collision.