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Experience Report: Agile Development Apprenticeship at NMHU
During the 2004-2005 academic year, Pam Rostal and Dave West ran a unique work-study degree program at New Mexico Highlands University: 20 students using Agile practices to execute real world projects. This story shows what can happen when education goes beyond the ordinary: when people are encouraged to strive for mastery and taught the thinking tools to do so.
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Top 8 SOA Adoption Pitfalls
Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author. He has written two books on SOA. Understanding the pitfalls others have fallen victim to will help you chart a safer route down your own SOA roadmap. To this end Thomas has collected the eight most common SOA adoption pitfalls of last year.
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Agile Asset Management with Ruby DSLs
Ruby makes it easy to craft Domain-Specific-Languages with Ruby syntax. This article is a story about the benefits derived from implementing a Ruby DSL for a PLANET ARGON development project.
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What is Agility, and Why Should You Care?
Coach Mishkin Berteig introduces the benefits of Agility with two stories of highly responsive teams, and outlines some further reading. Agile helps people work more effectively by empowering teams, amplifying learning and eliminating waste. Agility teaches the team to modify its own working process over time, always with a view to providing more value to the enterprise while reducing waste.
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Casestudy: Brasilian National Healthcare System
This casestudy takes a detailed look at the implementation and architecture behind the Brasilian National Healthcare System, a 2M line of code, truly mission critical Java application. Lessons learned, best practices, and details down to the interaction diagram are covered