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Knowing if You Are Building the Right Product
Developing and delivering products which customers don’t want and for which there is no market can be costly. Agile can help you to efficiently develop products, but you need to know what to build. How can you find out which products your customers need?
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Examining Different Approaches to Scaling Agile
Scaling Agile is a source of great consternation - what does it mean, how to scale, what framework or approach to use, what techniques need to change when adopting agile at scale, etc. Richard Dolman & Steve Spearman have built a matrix for comparing agile scaling frameworks. They spoke to InfoQ about their work.
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Google's Study Provides Insights into Programmers' Build Errors
Google engineers have recently published a research paper presenting an empirical study of 26.6 million builds produced during a period of nine months by thousands of developers at Google. The paper describes the build workflow, and analyzes failure frequency, compiler error types, and resolution efforts. Such a study, its authors say, can help improve the build process and support to developers.
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Fail Fast Means Learn Fast
Failing fast and often is one of the encouraged practices for agile teams. Sander Hoogendoorn, author of the This is Agile book discusses on his blog the importance of having a strategy that helps you on the decision of aborting a project by assuming its failure on an early stage.
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Managing Epics Across Multiple Channels
How to manage epics across multiple channels? Agile tools support in managing epics across multiple projects and boards.
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The Release Process Used by Mozilla for Firefox
This article presents the release process used by Mozilla for their browser.
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Alternative Approaches for Implementing Agile
Top-down implementation of agile is a commonly use approach for agile adoption in organizations. Alternative approaches exist, like implementing agile by stealth, using continuous improvement teams, starting with a quiet phase or taking baby steps by implementing a limited set of agile practices.
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Agile Australia Conference Review
The Agile Australia 2014 conference was held in Melbourne, Australia last week. Over 950 people from all around Australia, New Zealand and beyond attended this annual event. The theme of this year’s conference was Embracing Disruption, there were 41 sessions covering five broad topic areas.
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QCon San Francisco Update (Nov 3-7, 2014): Tracks Announced, Registrations Up 875%
Track topics have been finalized for the 8th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 3-5, 2014). Registrations for the event - which has been completely sold out for the past three years - are up 875% compared to the same time last year. Register before Jul 26th and save $700.
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Software Extension to PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition Released
Project Management Institute recently published software extension to the PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition. It includes mapping and replacing traditional approaches with their agile alternatives to ease the transition from traditional to agile methods.
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Group Performance Reviews and Rewards in Agile Teams
Group performance reviews, bonuses and rewards in agile teams to promote team culture.
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Delivering More Software Without Adding People
As the need for software products and services increases organizations look for ways to increase their capacity. Often organizations decide to scale up by adding more people. Some question this approach and suggest alternative ways to be able to deliver more software without adding people.
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Survey on Agile in Marketing by CMG Partners
Results of sixth-annual CMO’s agenda, “The Agile Advantage,” a qualitative survey assessing the role and responsibilities of the chief marketer have been released by marketing strategy consultancy CMG Partners.
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ING Netherlands' Measured Improvements on Transition to DevOps
Jan-Joost Bouwman and Mark Heistek, from ING Retail Banking Netherlands, presented at Devopsdays Amsterdam how a CMMI-ITIL organization transitioned to a more agile mindset. Somewhat unusually in this kind of sessions, ING presented quantitative evidence of the improvements, such as a marked increase in the number of changes deployed to production and a decrease of the risk value per change.
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Node Security Project Aims at Making Node.js More Secure
Node Security Project has been quietly working at improving Node.js security for a few months now. The project has the goal of auditing Node.js existing module base to help "improve Node landscape and provide confidence to developers and enterprises about the state of security in Node.js land."