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Why Traditional Test-Automation Tools Stifle Agility
In recent times, much excitement has circulated about the direction of "next generation functional testing" tools. Alas, many agile organizations still struggle to make their traditional record-and-playback automated testing tools work for them. Elisabeth Hendrickson, aka "test Obsessed", tells them why to stop.
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What can we expect from BPMN 2.0?
Although OMG is not scheduled to get to BPMN 2.0 until August/September timeframe, the initial announcements about its possible directions have caused a lot of activities on the Web.
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Article: Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker
There is no silver bullet. We know it, but don't act like it. Your language, tool or process is better, right? In this article, Jay Fields says: "It depends". The right choices varies with context, people, and more. This article touches upon how a lot of things must impact a choice; learning culture, skill levels, teamwork, incomplete information, metrics - and context.
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Does Sustainable Pace mean a 40 hour week?
Sustainable Pace is a well known XP practice however, different people relate to it in different ways. Could an Agile team increase its sustainable pace by working longer? An interesting discussion on the Scrum Development group tries to debate the correlation between the number of work hours per week and sustainable pace.
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Tom Baeyens on the Process Virtual Machine
JBoss is close to releasing version 1.0 of their "Process Virtual Machine", an ambitious project that seeks to provide a definition language agnostic process execution engine. InfoQ spoke with project lead Tom Baeyens about the project, and how the PVM changes the BPM landscape.
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xSocket Aims to Keep NIO Simple
The author of xSocket, Gregor Roth, touts xSocket as being easy to use and simpler than other similar libraries. InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Gregor about the recent release of xSocket 2.0 and find out its history, current status and future plans.
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Presentation: David Hussman on Automating Business Value with FIT and Fitnesse
In this presentation, David Hussman, founder of DevJam, discusses about user stories, the origin and authoring of story tests, focusing on how FIT and Fitnesse (FIT living within a Wiki) can be used to automate acceptance tests.
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released
Microsoft has released the March 2008 version of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools.
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Does Your Team Have a Mission Statement?
Is your team juggling conflicting requests? Is your Product Owner struggling to decide which customer's to serve and which to ignore for now? Does it seem that everyone has a different agenda? Perhaps you need a mission statement
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Microsoft Embraces Dependency Injection in the Framework
Microsoft's new Application Framework Core team has started to embrace techniques Naming and Activation Services, Dependency Injection, and Duck Typing in .NET's core frameworks.
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Impediments To Your Value-Stream
Scrum defines an impediment as "anything keeping the team from being more productive" and clearly stresses that teams establish means to remove them as continuously as possible. Joe Little proposes an impediment's scope may be better established as being anything keeping the organization from delivering value.
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Microsoft Live Mesh Keeping your World in Sync
Microsoft released a technology preview of their Windows Live Mesh service designed to connect and synchronize devices, folders and news. The details from Microsoft include giving users of PCs, Macs and Mobile phones access to their information from anywhere.
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.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit Available
Microsoft has recently made available the .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.
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MountainWest RubyConf 2008 Videos
The videos from MountainWest RubyConf 2008 are all available for downloading from the Confreaks website. We selected a few videos and provide an overview and some entry points into the talks.
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Lessons for the Agile Community from 8aweek
InfoQ recently had the opportunity to ask 8aweek co-founders Dave Fowler and Zachary Garbow some questions about how they connect with users, prioritize work, and get things done.