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Are You a Whole Team?
Key to the success of Agile is a "Whole Team", a cross functional team of generalizing specialists. A group that works across boundaries. Matthew Philip diagnoses some of their common problems, such as "Emphasis on Titles", the "Hero Culture" and more. Matthew looks at the root causes and possible cures.
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Agile and SOA, Hand in Glove?
Agile is the hand that works in the glove. SOA is the glove, the scope is enterprise wide. Most principles of SOA and Agile are not in conflict. When they are, they keep each other sane. Agile development without a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the company is futile. SOA without a clear vision how to make it real using agile development principles is a waste of time and money.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2008
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!
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"Who Do You Trust?" by Linda Rising
During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.
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Using Numbers to Communicate - in the Spirit of Agile
It's an old story. Techies cave in to the business guys because they don't know how to push back. The problem? Developers use numbers primarily for computation, but the business uses numbers to make decisions. In this story the "Spirit of Agile" encourages a developer to turn non-computational problems and issues into number language.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2008
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform, SOA, REST and the Web, Evolving Java, Banking, Agile in Practice, Programming Languages of Tomorrow, Effective Design, .NET, The Rise of Ruby.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2007
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, Architecture Quality, How much REST do we need?, Java in Action, Architecting for Performance & Scalability, Java Emerging Technologies, Challenges in Agile, Bleeding Edge .NET, The Rise of Ruby.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2007
This article presents the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Case studies (amazon, eBay, Yahoo!) Java, Agile, the Agile Open Space, Qualities in Architecture, Ajax and Browser Apps, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Usability, Banking Architectures followed by a summary of peoples over all opinions of QCon.
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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.