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jClarity Offers new Tools that Simplify Java Performance Tuning
In a world crowded with in-process and distributed Java profilers, jClarity is a new company with a niche in enterprise and the cloud, offering several tools designed with the goal of simplicity.
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Community-Driven Research: Major Software Development Trends for 2013
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 14th question about: "Major Software Development Trends for 2013". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Should we stop using Story Points and Velocity ?
Agilists in the community are debating the use of Story Points and Velocity, making people question the use of these in estimation and measurement of overall progress. The common underlying reason is these metrics are often prone to abuse and are seldom used effectively.
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Community-Driven Research: Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 13th question: "Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Changing people’s behavior by changing the environment
A recent article by Bob Marshall in Business Technology takes a look at how to change people’s behavior in organizations, by addressing the environment in which they do their work.
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Qualifying An Agile NearShore Or Offshore Supplier
Fundamentally offshoring and nearshoring software development are at odds with the principals of agile software development. But the financial and labor supply realities of the world have forced this principal to be bent and teams now seek guidance on how best to qualify an agile nearshore or offshore supplier. This articles tries to take a deeper on this topic.
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InfoQ Takes a Closer Look at Oracle’s ADF Mobile
Now that the dust has settled on the unveiling of Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile, InfoQ examines the reactions to the product from the community.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, second day sessions
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference continues on the second day. An impression of the sessions about agile adoption, self organizing and managing technical debt.
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How Competencies and Mental Shifts Help Agile Adoption
Two stories describing how professionals discovered ways to move from “using a waterfall process” to “becoming agile”, and dealt with their concerns along the way.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, first day sessions on agile
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference provides good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences on agile. An impression of some of the sessions from day 1.
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Change and Permanence
How do we embrace agile software development, while protecting business transactions from harm, and dispute? The legal profession is risk adverse, and seeks permanence over change. But complex software development require adaptation to change. This article summarizes one angle on this debate.
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QCon London 2013 Registration Now Open; March 6-8
The 7th annual QCon London (March 6-8) has been announced and registration is open! QCon London has become a mainstay conference for the UK and European software development community. This year continues in our tradition of practitioner-driven high quality content with over 15 tracks and 100 speakers including keynotes Damian Conway, Barbara Liskov, and Ward Cunningham.
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Evidence of Success of Agile Projects
Early results of a study on the effects of agile development practices are showing improvements in productivity and quality. These results aim to answer questions on development projects schedules and budgets. They also provide insight in the results of outsourcing and co-located teams.
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Agile Tour Circling All Corners Of The World
Agile Tour is a yearly non-profit conference series that is hosted in a variety of cities worldwide throughout the months of October to December with the aim of connecting the Agile community. Now in its fifth year, the tour is currently making its way around the globe and is supported by both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.
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Business Craftsmanship: an Approach for Transforming Knowledge Work
Tobias Mayer started Business Craftsmanship: an organizational development and transformation approach to teach and apply ideas from Agile software development to any knowledge work context. Several posts have been published, for example about “Core Values” and “In Praise of Processes”.