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The Gospel of MBaaS- According to Anypresence Co-Founder (Part 1 of 2)
Anypresence co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer Richard Mendis claims that their method of MBaaS delivery and execution "is completely unique in the market." Infoq’s exclusive interview with Anypresence co-founder Richard Mendis.
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Reinventing Agile: From Value to Solutions
Jean-Jacques Dubray has written a post in which he challenges the structure of Agile user stories. He proposes a model which is based on a framework that spans such a broad conceptual view from business strategy to the verification, expressing the needs in a set of state transitions using the BOLT methodology.
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David J. Anderson Delivers "State of Kanban-Land" Address at the 2013 Lean Kanban Conference.
At his Keynote at the Lean Kanban conference in Chicago, Kanban pioneer David J. Anderson delivered a keynote on the state of Kanban. InfoQ captured some of the highlights of Anderson's address.
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Learning from Failures with The Lean Startup
The lean startup is about fast delivery of desired products to customers, and increasing your understanding about the needs of customers. With the lean startup, people can learn faster from failures and become better innovators. There are teachers that use a lean startup based approach in education, which helps their students to learn faster.
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Are Older Programmers More Knowledgeable?
A recent study based on Stack Overflow’s data attempts to answer if programming knowledge is related to age, if older programmers are more knowledgeable and if they acquire new skills or not.
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Behind the 2012 VersionOne State of Agile Survey
VersionOne recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2012, and once again it proved to be an interesting indicator of Agile adoption and trends.
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Mobile App Developers in Violation of Privacy Laws
Even if an app developer is a geek of the highest order, deftly orchestrating multiple code languages to fulfill their legal obligation for a comprehensive privacy protection policy, it all may be compromised when they permit their mobile app to funnel clients’ personal data, such as; texts, photos, geolocation, audio or video to an ad agency, MBaaS provider or other third party player.
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QCon New York 2013 in 6 Weeks (June 10-14); Top Tracks, Sessions, and Speakers
Going into its second year, QCon New York 2013 (Jun 10-14) will be the largest east coast event for senior influencers in software development. This year's conference is expected to draw over 550 attendees and will feature over 100 speakers presenting across 18 tracks. With only 6 weeks left before the event, there is still time to save $300 if you register before May 24th.
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Using Large Agile Retrospectives to Improve Projects
Retrospectives help teams to learn and improve their way of working. Several agile coaches have scaled retrospectives to cover larger projects or programs with multiple teams. Let’s explore how they did it.
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Java 8 Delayed to 2014 by Ongoing Security Woes
Oracle Java Platform Chief Architect Mark Reinhhold has announced that Oracle has decided to delay the release schedule of Java 8.
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Major Performance Improvements in CA Clarity 13.2
CA Clarity, an enterprise resource planning tool specifically designed for large IT organizations and consulting firms, has undergone a major redesign to fix its performance issues. In some cases average response time has gone from a frustrating 5 seconds to roughly 0.6 sec.
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Audio Interviews with Agile Commentators and Authors
Gil Broza, author of “The Human Side of Agile” has announced a series of audio interviews with a variety of authors and commentators on the topic of “Individuals and Interactions” in May. The theme of the series is "Apply proven strategies, approaches, and actions to make the Agile promise happen".
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Leadership for Self-Organized Agile Teams
Organizations that implement self-organized agile teams need managers who empowerer the teams by using servant leadership, and who coach and mentor them to learn and continuously improve themselves.
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Product Backlogs with Process Maps or Story Maps
When you have a large backlog with many user stories, structuring a product backlog with story maps or process maps can help to keep an overview and see the bigger picture.
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Scaling Agile At Spotify: An Interview with Henrik Kniberg
Back in November, Spotify released a paper titled "Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds". I recently had a chance to chat with Henrik Kniberg, one of the coaches on site there, to ask him some questions about the paper and to get an update on where they are today.