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New User Story Format Emphasizes Business Value
User stories, a common format for capturing agile requirements, could be more focused on business value. A traditional format for stating a user story is: "As a <type of user> I want <some functionality> so that <some benefit>." A value-centric replacement would be: "In order to <achieve some value>, as a <type of user>, I want <some functionality>."
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Agile Practices with the Highest Return on Investment
Return on Investment is a critical factor for decision making pertaining to following a particular software development practice. The post summarizes the ROI benefits of Agile and the inexpensive practices which lead to highest return on investment.
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The EQATEC Code Profiler v. 1.2 for the .NET Compact Framework Has New Features
InfoQ informed the community about the free EQATEC code profiler for the .NET Compact Framework a month ago. In the meantime, the profiler has been well received by the community, and EQATEC released version 1.2 with new features and bug fixes.
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Railo joins JBoss.org
Swiss software house Railo have announced that they are joining JBoss.org and will be releasing their Java based ColdFusion Markup Language engine for free under the LGPL.
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FIT/Fitnesse Fixture Gallery 2.0 Released
Gojko's Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/Fitnesse fixtures and version 2.0 has been released with Java, C# and Python code samples.
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Agile Business Intelligence
Large centrally designed BI systems often don't meet the expectations of their end users. In this article at Cutter IT journal Scott Ambler has written about using Agile methods to help meet the user's expectations and deliver business value quickly.
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Perst Embedded Database Releases Version 3.0
McObject® has released Perst™ version 3.0, a major upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database system. Persist is dual licensed (commerical and GPL), allowing it to be used freely in non-commercial applications.
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Presentation: The Design and Architecture of InfoQ
InfoQ.com is a next generation web portal combining the latest advancements in portal technology and web development. In this presentation, Alexandru Popescu and Floyd Marinescu walks through the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com; from initial (lack of) requirements, designs, implementation choices, and deployment issues, and all the lessons learned along the way.
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Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team?
An Agile team is mostly a cross functional team comprising of generalists and specialists. Jurgen Appelo, challenges this concept and suggests that having just specialists on an Agile team adds more value. The post tries to correlate various view points on team composition by other members of the Agile community.
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JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.0 with Many Improvements, C# 3.0 Support
JetBrains has released the much-anticipated productivity Visual Studio add-in, ReSharper 4.0. Resharper 4.0 includes many improvements and new features.
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Presentation: Dealing With the Organizational Challenges of Agile Adoption
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Joseph Pelrine talks about the challenges faced by organizations trying to adopt Agile methods.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Enterprise Software Development Conference Launched
QCon is coming back to San Francisco this November 19-21st, featuring speakers such as Martin Fowler, Eric Meijer (creator of LINQ), Rod Johnson (Spring), and others. Digg.com, Facebook, Yellowpages.com and MySpace.com architectures will be presented. QCon is the conference for enterprise software development team leads, architects and project management.
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Presentation: Agile Architecture Is Not Fragile Architecture
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Coplien and Henney describe how to start with enough architecture to ensure long term success of an Agile developed project.
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Agile 2008 Program Announced
The program for Agile 2008, Expanding Agile Horizons has just been announced. This year the program was This year it features a number of stages (i.e. tracks) from which attendees can sample: Main Stage, Research, Breaking Acts, Questioning Agile, Customers and Business Value, User Experience, Developer Jam, Tools for Agility,...
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Could the Solution to IT's Problems be less IT-Business Alignment?
The never ending debate about the role, the relevance or the organization of IT has added yet another frustration moment. Susan Cram, an industry expert, shared the 8 things -she thinks- we hate about IT. In her analysis, she points out a surprising remedy: avoiding the IT alignment trap.