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Investigation of Project Management Skills
An investigation was done to find out which skills are desired by employers for project management positions and what it takes to be successful as a project manager. An interview about skills for managing projects, likability of bosses and leadership skills, why people feel miserable at work and what can be done to prevent it and the need for project managers when organizations migrate to agile.
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Agile 2015 – Industry Analyst Panel: Agile Trends and Future Direction
At the recent Agile 2015 conference the Agile Alliance hosted the fifth annual industry analyst panel briefing in which a group of commentators answered questions on the theme of agile trends and future directions.
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Ilan Goldstein on a Scrum Myth Buster Series
This post covers scrum myths described by Ilan Goldstein, Certified Scrum Trainer.
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Agile 2015 Closing Keynote - Want Better Collaboration? Don’t be so Defensive
James Tamm, author of the book Radical Collaboration, gave the closing keynote at the recent Agile 2015 conference. His talk was titled “Want Better Collaboration – don’t be so defensive" and provided advice on how to be more collaborative by understanding the factors which cause our own defensiveness.
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The new QCon London - returning for its 10th year!
QCon London 2016 will take place at the The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on March 7-11, 2016 next year, and registration is now open.
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Agile 2015 Interviews and Commentary
At the recent Agile 2015 conference two organisations had video booths set up to record interviews with conference attendees, organizers and speakers. These videos are now published and available.
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Impact of Splitting User Stories on the Original Estimates
Product backlog refinement is a practice in which product backlog items are split and often re- estimated. This post is based on user story splitting and re-estimations.
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Meet Grid, The Guardian's Image Management Service
The British newspaper The Guardian has open sourced Grid, their image management service. Grid utilizes numerous modern web-based technologies including AngularJS, Amazon Web Serivces, and ElasicSearch using ECMAScript 6 and Scala. Build by a small developer team over the past 11 months, it is currently used in production and available under a liberal open source license.
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Pro or Against Agile Certification
Some people stress the need for agile training with certification, as it helps to select candidates and lays a foundation for an agile transformation. Others are against certification, in their opinion they don't reflect people's abilities and skills properly and people who have no certifications might be better candidates than others who have. Are you pro or against agile certification?
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QCon SF 2015 Update: Workshops at a glance (Nov 19-20)
At QCon San Francisco, we offer two days of workshops (Nov 19-20). Workshops focus on developing the technical skills that leverage technologies you heard about from our expert practitioners during the conference sessions. Here is a glimpse at some of the experts you can learn from QCon SF ‘15 workshops.
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Adopting a Suitable Agile Method Based on Organizational Goals
Dan Tousignant, Agile Executive Coach and Trainer at Cape Project Management, proposed a matrix to help organizations choose their Agile approach.
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Agile 2015 Sponsor Roundup
The Agile2015 conference ran in Washington, DC last week with over 2300 attendees from around the globe. This is the first of a number of news items that will highlight different aspects of the conference. They were each asked to answer three questions – Who, What and Why. Who are they, What were they offering at the conference and Why did they chose to sponsor this event?
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ZenHub is now Integrated with GitHub Enterprise
ZenHub is a collaboration and project management tool integrated with GitHub. Their latest version is integrated with GitHub Enterprise.
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Managing Health and Quality of Applications with qMap
QASymphony has released qMap, a visual mapping solution for agile testers of cloud, mobile, big data and IoT apps. InfoQ did an interview with Kyle Cochran about why qMap was developed, how testers can use qMap to get insight into their testing results and manage testing and can use information from qMap improve the quality of their product, and how QMap can be deployed within agile and DevOps.
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TFS2015 Released with New Build System and Greater Git Support
TFS2015 was originally intended to launch alongside VS2015 in July, but was held back for final polishing and bug fixes. The wait is over and TFS2015 RTM is now available. Among the many changes included are the new build system and greater Git support.