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How TFS Embraced 3-Week Release Cycles
Buck Hodges argues that long release cycles lead to unhealthy development practices for the Team Foundation Server team, but there is more to short release cycles than just shipping with each sprint. Other changes in how software is planned and developed is needed, including the ability to disable new features rather than fixing them.
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New Scrum Kickoff Planner Aims To Help Agile Teams Start on The Right Track
A new "Scrum Kickoff Planner" has just been released by Adam Weisbart with the aim of facilitating team discussion around the important facets of starting a new Agile team or project.
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Project Manager and/or Scrum Master
The debate about the overlap between Scrum Master and Project Manager roles continues. Many commentators and bloggers strongly advise against combining the two roles, yet many role descriptions and job advertisements combine them into a single job.
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Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement
A new survey, conducted by Serena Software at the recent Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that whilst projects using Agile are working well, they could be much better and some of the biggest challenges include upsteam and downstream communication.
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QCon San Francisco 3 Weeks Away (Nov 5-9, 2012); New Keynotes Published; Popular Tracks & Sessions
The sixth annual QCon San Francisco is taking place in just 3 weeks - register before Oct 19th and save $200. Attend the premier west coast event for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, HTML5, Mobile, Agile, and Architecture communities.
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Google App Engine Adds Continuous Integration Through Jenkins
Thanks to a partnership with cloud software provider CloudBees, Google App Engine users can now use the continuous integration tool Jenkins to build, test, and deploy their cloud applications. This new service continues a general PaaS trend of providing continuous integration tools that connect to leading source control repositories.
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InfoQ Research Project Update
As you may know already, InfoQ is testing a new service that we hope will provide you with up-to-date and bias-free community-based insight into trends and behaviors that affect enterprise software development. After a few weeks of being in production, we wanted to share with you, our community of users, an update on how this project is going.
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Moving Beyond Scrum
Many teams new to Agile start with Scrum. Scrum provides clear guidance, rules, and practices to help teams adopt an Agile mindset. It also surfaces a lot of problems in organizations, which is part of what makes it so difficult for many companies to do successfully. For those that have been doing Scrum for a while, the question becomes, what now? Is this all there is?.
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TFS Power Tools Updated for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
Microsoft has released an new version of the TFS Power Tools. This is an update to the TFS 2010 Power Tools. It adds support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012, as well as new TFS 2012 features that include a revamped Team Explorer.
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Community-Driven Research: Biggest Impediments for Effective Agile Adoption?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 7th question: "Biggest Impediments for Effective Agile Adoption?". 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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Culture Game Extract #3 Now Available from InfoQ
The latest extract from Dan Mezick's book The Culture Game is now available on InfoQ.com He is also an organizer for The Agile CULTURE Conference being held in Boston and Philadelphia this week.
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Pair Programming Gets Mainstream Coverage, Lukewarm Response
The Wall Street Journal has begun to take notice of the growing number of technology companies that have been practicing Pair Programming and has published their take on the practice in an article titled Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing.
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QConSF: Facebook, Pinterest, Ancestry.com Case Studies; Tales from Silicon Valley; Nov 5 - 9, 2012
75% of the sessions are now up on the QConSF conference site and over 80% of speakers have been confirmed, including keynote speaker Kevlin Henney, patterns book author and editor of “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know”. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 5 - 9, 2012. Save up to $350 if you register by Sept 14th.
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SAP's Jonathan Becher Claims That Brainstorming Does Not Work
In the SAP Newsroom blog Jonathan Becher recently posted on the topic "Is Brainstorming Brain Dead?". Brainstorming is a method frequently applied within system and software development projects. Becher claims, the technique of brainstorming has proven to be a failure.
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Dave Snowden: Agile - sound practice, poor theory
Dave Snowden gave a talk last week in which he discussed how Agile is founded on good practices, but often fails to scale effectively because practitioners do not understand why the techniques work, and thus fail to adapt them to the complex environments which are characteristic of large organisations. Asking management to adopt agile won't work - agile must adapt to complex business realities.