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Visual Studio Gets Git
Git, the popular open source distributed version control system is now natively supported by Visual Studio 2012 and the Team Foundation Service. Microsoft's new plug in provides native support and provides an alternative to the centralized source control model.
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How to Measure and Analyze Happiness
Companies have reported that focusing on things that make their employees happy can give benefits. But how can you measure and analyze employee happiness? Some insights in the why of happiness, and the results and lessons learned from those who used it.
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Interview with Naresh Jain on emerging Agile trends in India
InfoQ spoke to Naresh Jain, chair of Agile India 2013 about emerging Agile trends in India. Naresh talks about Product Discovery, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery and much more, from an Indian context.
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Agile Open Event a Resounding Success in Florianopolis, Brazil
The Agile Alliance sponsored an Agile Open event in Florianopolis, Brazil on the 25th of January. The event attracted over 100 participants from all over Brazil and as far away as Canada. The event put on by the Agile Alliance as part of the focus the Alliance has of engaging with and supporting local agile communities around the world.
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Kii Cloud Back End Features Analytics and Monetization
If you want to gain a significant presence in the Asian mobile community, Kii Cloud provides a snap in back end for your iOS, Android or HTML5/JavaScript mobile app. It’s free to add a comprehensive back end that features analytics and monetization to your app during its current Beta run.
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How do Product Owners and Teams Collaborate?
Henrik Kniberg has developed “a 1 day product ownership course compressed into a 15 minute animated presentation”. Based upon this video and some other on-line resources about the product owner role, collaboration between product owners and teams is examined.
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Innovation Games Celebrates Ten Years with Summit in Santa Clara
Innovation Games celebrates their 10 year anniversary with a Summit in Santa Clara California. The Summit features Alexander Osterwalder as the keynote speaker.
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The High Cost of Interruptions
Chris Parnin, publishing under the name “ninlabs research”, has released a study of 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio. His research has found that “a programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day” and that a programmer can take 10 to 15 minutes to resume work after an interruption.
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Minimum Viable Products for Enterprises
Enterprise software startups use a minimum viable product (MVP) to learn about customers with limited effort and money. How can organizations deploy lean startup principles to develop a viable product for their stakeholders?
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Culture Game Extract #4 Now Available from InfoQ
The fourth extract from Dan Mezick's book The Culture Game is now available for InfoQ readers. THE CULTURE GAME is a tutorial & reference for creating lasting business agility in organizations. This book provides you with specific tools & techniques to help teams (and the entire enterprise) rapidly respond to change, and describes 16 patterns of team-learning behavior.
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Two weeks remain for Agile 2013 Submmissions
Only two weeks remain for potential speakers to submit their proposals for the Agile 2013 conference. So far over 200 submissions have been received, with many more expected before the close of submissions at the end of January.
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Right Way(s) of Doing and Being Agile
Debates are being held in agile communities concerning the right way(s) to do or be agile. It is questioned if you are agile or not, and if you do good or bad scrum. How can you deal with this?
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A Fist Full of RIM, For a Few Mobile Devs More
All of the ducks are in the proverbial row for the much ballyhooed debut of Research In Motion’s Blackberry 10 (BB10). The all new OS is slated for release on January 30, 2013. InfoQ scrutinizes the salient facts and more to gain the most in-depth perspective on the new release from the venerable developer.
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QCon London in 8 Weeks (March 6-8): Barbara Liskov (MIT) Keynote; New Tutorials; Schedule Now Live
The QCon London 2013 schedule is now live, with new sessions and speakers being added daily. Hear MIT's Barbara Liskov on "The Power of Abstraction" during her Day 1 keynote, followed by Perl aficionado Damian Conway, who explores "The Power of Dead Languages". With less than 8 weeks left, you can still save up to £341, if you register by Jan 11th.
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Things you can Check when Adopting Agile
An agile checklist is a tool which can help you to assess your agile implementation in an organization, and assist when adopting agile. Some examples of lists with things that you can check when adopting agile.