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Raising the Bar: Super Optimizing Your Agile Implementation Using Kanban and Lean
Jesper Boeg and Guilherme Silveira discuss if Lean&Kanban is better than traditional Agile, how they could go together, and determining if Lean&Kanban is appropriate for immature teams.
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Resurrecting SOA
Anne Thomas Manes redefines SOA based on the SOA Manifesto, focusing on models, methodologies and patterns, not on technology, intended to produce the desired business and technical goals.
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Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect
Dan North talks about the tendency of developers-becoming-architects to create complex systems. He argues for simplicity and offers strategies to extract the simple essence from complex situations.
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BPM: Top Seven Architectural Topics in 2010
Hajo Normann on modeling human interaction, improving BPM models, orchestrating composed services, central task management, business-IT alignment, non-deterministic processes, and choreography.
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Global Software Delivery with Distributed Agile
Matthew Simons and Steven Boswell consider that distributed software development is a strategic capability for a company, presenting a framework and Agile practices for building such an environment.
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Agile Development: Overcoming a Short-term Focus in Implementing Best Practices
Karthik Dinakar presents a case study showing that trying to reach short-term goals by ignoring some practices can lead to long-term failures, how they recovered and recommends some best practices.
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Danger! Software Craftsmen at Work
David Harvey explores the possible danger he sees in the current Software Craftsmanship discourse which can end up creating a barrier between the software builders and their customers.
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Software Craftsmanship, Beyond The Hype
Corey Haines believes that craftsmanship means forming quality software developers who choose their own practices and use them, starting as apprentices, becoming journeymen, and ending coding katas.
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A Scalable, Peer-led Model for Building Good Habits in Large & Diverse Development Teams
Jason Gorman presents how developers can learn TDD to the point of transforming the knowledge acquired into habits by exercising a number of practices followed by peer evaluation.
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Kanban - Crossing the Line, Pushing the Limit or Rediscovering the Agile Vision?
Jesper Boeg talks on the origins of Kanban, software Kanban, how it is different from other Agile methods and what it is useful for, the team maturity needed, and some of disadvantages of using Kanban
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Nothing New Under the Sun: Continually Rediscovering the Good Ways to Build Software
Keith Braithwaite proposes ways to integrate ideas successfully applied in software in the past but later discarded, like analysis, architecture, and modeling, into current technology and practice.
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Sharpening the Tools
Dan North advices on how to advance from beginner to expert: practice the basics, learn from others, understand trends, share knowledge, maintain the toolbox, learn how to learn, and re-do everything.
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