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Anime version of Scrum overview diagram available from Scrum Primer website
The authors of the Scrum Primer, which includes a graphic explaining the Scrum process which is available for download and use under the creative commons license, have released an anime cartoon version of the diagram, also under a creative commons license.
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Reactions to Yahoo!’s Decision to Forbid Employee Telecommuting
Yahoo!’s recent decision to call all employees to work from company’s offices has raised some questions especially throughout the telecommuting community. Is this a disguised move to lay off people? Is it a misunderstanding of how remoting is to be managed? Is this the right move for Yahoo!?
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How Swarming Helps Agile Teams to Deliver
Swarming is a technique that helps agile teams to deliver working software fast and frequently. What is swarming, what are the benefits of swarming, and when and how to apply it?
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"February Revolution" Aims to Focus Software Delivery on Business Outcomes
In February 2013 a group of authors, speakers, consultants and practitioners met to identify the common elements in their approaches to focusing software delivery on business outcomes. The group identified some underlying principles and practical steps that organisations and teams can take to help ensure the products they "build the right product" to maximize business value.
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To Live and Code in Kinvey MBaaS
Second in a series of articles about the organizations back of the burgeoning category of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), InfoQ takes a gander at Cambridge, Massachusetts company Kinvey, Inc. Kinvey’s third party data integrations, support for multiple platforms, notifications, versioned API’s and business logic features expedite the developer’s backend.
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Agile Adoption in the Public Sector: FBI and Port of Rotterdam
There is a need for the public sector to adopt agile software development methods. Two case studies which show how agile has been used for the FBI, and at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Culture Game Extract #5 Now Available from InfoQ
Dan Mezick has written The Culture Game – a how-to book describing 16 learning patterns derived from Agile. InfoQ is publishing a series of extracts from the book. The latest extract discusses the concept of tribal learning and tribal leadership.
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Are Developers Introverted or Extroverted? Are They Intuitive or Logical?
A new Evans Data survey has performed an ample study meant to uncover some of the characteristics of the developer community. Are developers introverted or extroverted? Are they intuitive or logical? Do they prefer virtual or real rewards? What is most worrisome for their carrier? And many others.
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Agile Developers Needed
Staffing firm Yoh Services has released the results of a study which shows that job demand for Agile development skills exceeds supply by a factor of 4 to 1 in the USA.
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CAST: Adding Spring Lowers the Quality of JEE Applications
A CAST report discloses that JEE enterprise software has lower quality when using Spring or Struts than using just Hibernate. Also, the quality degrades when Java is mixed with C or C++.
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Using Retrospectives for Agile Adoption
To become more flexible, durable and increase organizational effectiveness, retrospectives can be used in adopting agile. Some experiences stories and examples of how teams use retrospectives as a sustainable and adaptable solution for agile adoption, to implement continuous improvement with them.
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What HR or Managers can do to Support the Agile Transformation
In an agile adoption, there is need to develop and sustain an agile culture. What can the Human Resources department or managers do to support the agile in their company, and lower the chance on employees concerns about their roles, assessments of their performance, and on their work environment?
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Stash: Git for the Enterprise
The makers of the popular ALM tools JIRA and Confluence and released version 2 of Stash. Stash adds the kind of features to Git that one would expect to find in a centralized version control system such as branch-level permissions and deep integration with JIRA.
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QCon London 2013 in 3 Weeks (March 6-8); Top Tracks, Sessions, and Speakers
Going into its seventh year, QCon London 2013 (Mar 6-8) is the largest event in the UK for senior influencers in software development. This year's conference is expected to draw over 1,200 attendees and will feature over 100 speakers presenting across 20 tracks. With only 3 weeks left before the event, there is still time to save £216 if you register before Feb 8th.
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Announcing QCon New York 2013 (June 12-14); Registration Open; Tracks Announced
Registration is now open for QCon New York 2013 (Jun 12-14). Some of this year's 15 tracks include: Polyglot Architectures, Hot Technologies in Financial Services, Java Innovations, Lean Startup Applied, Continuous Delivery, Applied Data Science, the JavaScript Ecosystem, HTML5, Mobile Development, and more. Register before Feb 15th and save $650.