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Scrub & Spin: Stealth Use of Formal Methods in Software Development
Gerard Holzmann discusses Spin, a design analyzer tool, and Scrub, a code review tool, used by Jet Propulsion Laboratory to analyze and fix the software used for solar system exploration missions.
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Single Piece Flow in Kanban: A How-To
James Shore and Arlo Belshee present an approach to Kanban using simultaneous phases by introducing work cells based on two queues: what you are doing and what you are going to do.
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Next Generation of Business-Driven SOA: The Convergence of Performance-Driven Business and Service-Orientation
John DesJardins believes that the new SOA will measure their businesses alignment with IT in order to asses the impact of services or of changes or new initiatives, up-time, response time, etc.
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Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification
Robert C. Martin on writing good code starting with a bad code example, then addressing many topics like: Boy Scout rule, functions, arguments, craftsmanship, TDD, engineering, certification, etc.
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From Dev To Production Through Build Pipelines and Teamwork
Sam Newman offers practical advice on how to avoid transforming the development, QA and Operations into silos by using build pipelines providing continuous builds and deployment.
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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby
Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.
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Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams
Roy Osherove discusses principles and practices that make teams more effective, successful and happy, exploring how team leads can influence and help their teams to obtain their maximum potential.
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The Easy Road to FLOW Goes through a Town named LEAN
Why does the software development community do a better job using lean product development methods than other communities? Perhaps, because it is willing to adapt lean methods to its problems.
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Expressing Service Capabilities Uniformly
Benjamin Carlyle discusses reaching SOA integration maturity using reusable and uniform contracts translated into REST service definitions by splitting capabilities into centralized methods.
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Sustainable Test-Driven Development
Steve Freeman offers advice on writing good tests that make development easier avoiding dead weight code that is hard to maintain. Topics: readability, complex data, diagnostics, and flexibility.
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From Agile Development to Agile Operations
Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, helping to bridge the development and operations worlds.
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Project-Oriented SOA
Leo Shuster shows how to combine service architecture and lifecycle management, funding, SOA governance and metrics in order to develop individual projects and an SOA initiative in the same time.
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