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InfoQ Interview: Mary and Tom Poppendieck on using Lean for Competitive Advantage
Lean software gurus Mary and Tom Poppendieck share their years of practical experience, as they speak on the history of Lean thinking, the value of fast delivery and deferred committment, their use of Value Stream Mapping to identify and reduce waste, the importance of identifying and dealing well with cross-organizational and inter-organizational boundaries, and how Lean relates to RUP and Scrum.
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Psst ... got a SOA Reference Model? Want another one?
The Open Group starts work on another SOA Reference Model. But what is wrong with the existing OASIS model?
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Tutorial: TDD with Selenium and Castle
Dan Bunea shows how TDD can be applied in .NET using Selenium RC and Castle. Test first principals provide architects a way to quickly jump into active development early in the application development lifecycle. The benefits of TDD are a drastic reduction in defects as well as increased flexibility in the code base since the application evolves quickly through an iterative process.
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Agile UI Development: What's the User Experience?
While Agile approaches generally shun up-front analysis and design, the emerging practice of User-Centered Design relies on a detailed user research and modeling phase before development begins. Which is right? In his InfoQ article, Dave Churchville explores how these disciplines can be used together for an effective UI development process.
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Predictions: The Changing World of IT Work
In a recent Datamation article, James Maguire noted the challenge of staying employed in an environment in which the rules are continually rewritten. He spoke with Gartner analyst Diane Morello for 5 predictions for those of us thinking about career directions over the next five years.
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How .NET Handles Standards Compliance that Result in Breaking Changes
Two security classes in .NET, HMACSHA512 and HMACSHA384, have a bug. It isn't an earth-shattering bug, but it does produce results that are inconsistent with the standard. The .NET Security team shows how this will be handed so that current applications won't break when the code gets fixed.
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InfoQ.com publishes its 1000th news post
InfoQ has this week published its 1000th news post; since the site launched just 8 months ago it has also published 90 in-depth technical articles, 4 original books, and a number of video interviews and presentations. Thank you to all our readers for their support and to the editors for all the hard work!
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Agile Certification Debate Heats Up
The debate over agile certification rages on, with a recent entry in the Agile Chronicles taking aim specifically at Scrum certification.
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Offshore Outsourcing with Scrum
Swedish consulting firm Softhouse recently published the second part of an interview with Jeff Sutherland, in which he describes how one company used Scrum to integrate with an offshore development team.
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MountainWest RubyConf Registration Ending Soon
If you can't make it to QCon in London, consider attending MountainWest RubyConf, the first regional Ruby conference of 2007, to be held March 16th and 17th in Salt Lake City, Utah. Keynote address by Chad Fowler, talks by Gregory Brown, Kirk Haines, John Lam, Charles Nutter, and several others.
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User-Centric Development Approaches: What's Next?
On her Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra recently envisioned software that's not just usable, but transparent, helping users achieve "flow" in their work without intrusive distractions, delays or constraints. Perhaps end-user "flow" is the next big differentiator - and if so, what will the development processes look like that support the creation of such software?
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Railsconf 2007 Registrations Selling Quickly
Don't miss the premier event of the Ruby on Rails world coming up in late May. A majority of the registrations are already sold as the level of Ruby and Rails community excitment rides high.
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Interview: Kent Beck on Agile Adoption & Values
In a new interview, InfoQ editor Kurt Christensen asks Kent Beck - creator of JUnit and Extreme Programming - some questions about the adoption of agile values and practices.
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Interview: Jimmy Nilsson on Domain-Driven Design
In this latest video interview, Jimmy Nilsson of 'Applying Domain-Driven Design' talks about the value proposition of Domain Driven Design and how DDD integrates with Agile. Jimmy also answers questions on OOD vs. DDD and the symbiotic relationship of domain specific relationships with DDD.
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Agile Methods and Startup Companies
Jessica Livingston's much anticipated book Founders at Work is finally available, featuring numerous interviews with successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Wozniak, David Heinemeier Hansson and Paul Graham. Although not targeted at agile software developers, anyone familiar with agile methods will recognize the advice on how to build software.