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When to Cease Being an Agile Coach?
Agile coach Morgan Ahlström recently turned to the Agile Coach Support mailing list to ask how to deal with an organization that said they wanted the benefits of becoming more agile, but was behaving in ways contrary to that goal.
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The Future of the Web as Seen by Gartner
Gene Phifer, Managing VP in Gartner Research, and David Mitchell Smith, VP and Fellow in Gartner Research, recently held a webinar entitled How Web and Cloud Computing Will Drive Your IT Strategy (registration required), outlining some of the key characteristics of the future web as seen by Gartner, concluding with a number of recommendation for businesses that want to be prepared.
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Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH): Test Your Configuration Management
A Google search for “devops” yields tons of interesting postings and even a couple of manifestos. Refine the search further to “devops quality” and the results become less direct; “devops testing” simply doesn’t exist according to Google. That said, things are starting to change. In late April Greg Retkowski released Virtual Machine Test Harness (VMTH), for unit-testing infrastructure automation.
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Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay
Cloud computing has become a major priority for enterprises. 60% of CIOs see it as a priority, after BI, mobility and virtualization, while large enterprises have set aside for it 15% of their budged, according to some studies.
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JetBrains Release IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 With Full Java 7 Support
JetBrains have released IDEA 10.5 with support for Java 7, Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1 as well as further usability improvements. Version 10.5 is a free update for developers with a version 10 license, and the Ultimate version is now offered at a lower price for new licenses and for personal license upgrades.
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What Agile Architecture and Hurricanes have in Common
In a recent presentation at SATURN 2011 Eric Richardson has drawn some analogies between architects in an agile environment and hurricane meteorologists. For example, both produce various forecasts respectively documents, use many kinds of data sources as inputs, and employ different techniques to acquire data. The question arises is: what can architects learn from meteorologists?
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Agile Leaders Weigh in on PMI Agile Certification
Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber welcomes PMI's establishment of its own Agile certification program, and has recently posted his thoughts.
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Build Connected Windows Phone Applications Faster with AgFx
AgFx is a framework for creating Windows Phone 7 applications that simplifies data access and storage. Developers need only to specify the source of information, how to parse it within the application, and expiration rules. After that, data retrieval, caching and refreshes are handled automatically.
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Spring.NET Gets Visual Studio Add-in, CodeConfig, NuGet Packages
Spring.NET, the .NET counterpart of Spring Framework for Java has several new features through CodeConfig and a new Visual Studio extension meant for content-assist. The Spring.NET packages are also now distributed via NuGet, making it much easier for developers to manage dependencies when using them in their projects.
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Bloggers React To Open Virtualization Alliance Announcement
Yesterday’s announcement that a group of company’s led by Red Hat, IBM, HP and others have formed the Open Virtualization Alliance had bloggers talking. The the goal is to foster the adoption of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). But speculation ran high after the announcement that some member companies may be attempting to break the stranglehold VMWare and Citrix hold on the market.
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Code is Liability, the Less the Better
In lean manufacturing, the definition of inventory is pretty clear. It is the extra material, work in progress material and material queued up for the next bit of work. Lean emphasizes on reducing the inventory because there is always an inventory handling costs. In software development, often requirements are seen as inventory, what about the code?
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Scala 2.9.0 Introduces Parallel Collections
The latest Scala release 2.9.0 introduces parallel collections to easily utilize multicore processors. Other new features are an improved REPL, ScalaDoc and new packages for interacting with the operating system.
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Visual Studio vNext Will Bring More Agility and DevOps Integration
Microsoft has unveiled at TechEd North America 2011 some of the new features coming in Visual Studio: more Agile tools for project planning and collecting stakeholder feedback, a connector for providing operations feedback to developers, plus architecture diagrams and unit testing for VC++.
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A Case Study for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
Paul M. Duvall, author of the book "Continuous Integration", wrote about a case study for adopting continuous delivery in the cloud by a large organization in the public healthcare sector. The post discusses the problems, tools and solutions they found in the process.
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Oracle Proposes Improvements to JCP
Yesterday, Oracle announced the start of JSR.next, also known as JSR 348, to upgrade the current JCP to force more openness and transparency. Read on to find out more.