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Why Superman Is Not a Good Agile Team Member
Karen Siers outlines the difficulties encountered by a developer switching from a waterfall or cowboy coding environment to a collaborative Agile style.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flexible Scope
Gojko Adzic shows how to convince people to embrace flexible scope, not only for startup environments but for big enterprise projects as well.
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How WebMD Maintains Operational Flexibility with NoSQL
Rajeev Borborah, Matthew Wilson discuss using NoSQL at WebMD -architecture, benefits, roadmap-, with details on caching and key-value storage implementation behind a few of the WebMD applications.
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Deployed in 60 Minutes: Increasing Production Deployments from Six Months to Every Hour
Sponsored by Twilio. Matt Makai explores why deployments are difficult and shows solutions with case studies on how other organizations cut their production deployment times down from months to hours.
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Debunking the Steve Rule
Corinna Brock discusses the place of women in software development, how to be a minority, how to increase their number and how to keep the current ones.
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When Your Only Hammer is a Keyboard, Everything Looks Like a Tool
Darren Hobbs shares lessons learned building polyglot systems, the technology choices made. mitigating risk and delivering value.
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Make It Great: Refactoring That’s Smart and Satisfying
Ann Robson discusses how to develop standards, approach refactoring in a safe and practical way, and track the evolution of a code with tools and metrics.
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Continuous Improvement: Hell on Earth?
Katherine Kirk reflects through case study examples on what continuous improvement feels like on the ground and explores how it can be better by learning from other industries, research and real-life.
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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Estimates
Seb Rose wonders if estimates are worthwhile and discusses what business people – Steve McConnell, Demarco, Lister, Disraeli - have to say about this.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java in contrast with C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of performance limits and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams.
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Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career
Dan North shares some of the interactions with people that have shaped his accidental career: when he killed the production database, when the boss was wrong, when he was wrong, when he tried to quit.
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