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Maven Central Enables SSL
Responding to recent concerns that hackers could upload rogue versions of common libraries to Maven Central, Sonatype has released a patch that closes a security vulnerability, enabling SSL by default.
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Agile 2014 Second Keynote - Best Job Ever
Diana Larsen gave the second keynote talk at the Agile 2014 conference. Titled “Best Job Ever” she gave the audience advice on designing their careers to enable fulfilling and engaging work.
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Agile 2014 Vendor Roundup #3
The Agile 2014 conference is underway in Orlando, Fl, USA this week. This is the third of a number of news items summarising the offerings from the vendors who are exhibiting at the conference.
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Huge Retrospectives with Online Games
Agile retrospectives are mostly done at the team level or at a project level. What if you need to conduct a retrospective with 50 teams or more? Luke Hohmann describes how a large scale agile transformation project did a huge retrospective to create insight on what was going well and what needed to be improved.
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Agile 2014 Vendor Roundup #1
The Agile 2014 conference is underway in Orlando, Fl, USA this week. This is the first of a number of news items summarising the offerings from the vendors who are exhibiting at the conference.
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Agile 2014 Opening Keynote
Sam Gluckenheimer opened the Agile 2014 conference with a talk titled "The Journey to Cloud Cadence" in which he discussed the transformationt at Microsoft Developer Division from a waterfallian box product delivery cycle of four years to Agile practices enabling a hybrid SaaS and on-prem business, triweekly delivery of new features in the service, and quarterly delivery for on-premise customers.
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Blameless Post-Mortems
Blameless post-mortems of production incidents are increasingly seen as an essential fixture of any organisation's procedures. Mathias Meyer, from Travis CI, shared how blameless post-mortems had a profound effect on him. InfoQ took this opportunity to have a look at post-mortem practices of organizations like Etsy, GitHub or Chef.
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Nurturing a Culture for Continuous Learning
Continuous learning supports agile adoption in enterprises. A culture change can be needed to enable and support continuous learning. There are several things that managers and agile coaches can do to establish and nurture a continuous learning culture.
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Ansible Is Learning Windows
Ansible is adding support for Windows, using PowerShell and Windows Remote Management as the underlying technologies. Ansible 1.7, which should be released in a few weeks time, will feature Windows integration in "beta" status. InfoQ talked with Michael DeHaan, Ansible's creator, to know more about this development.
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The Birth of Continuous Delivery and DevOps
At GOTO Amsterdam 2014 conference, agile coach Dan North shared his experience as part of a build team employed in a client project back in 2005. The team introduced several (technical and cultural) practices that became core tenets of the Continuous Delivery book and of the DevOps movement (for instance bridging the gap between development and ops teams was critical to success in that project).
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Scrum Meets Management 3.0
Scrum meets management 3.0 , a talk presented by Arne Ahlander at Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014.
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Agile 2014 Conference Special Events
The Agile 2014 conference starts in Orlando, Florida on July 28. In addition to the conference sessions and keynotes there are a number of special events happening at the conference.
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Success Factors for Agile Delivery in the Federal Government
The Guide to Critical Success Factors in Agile Delivery discusses the values, benefits and challenges of agile and proposes critical success factors for implementing an agile delivery in the federal government. InfoQ interviewed Paul Gorans about implementing agile practices, how agile impacts acquisition and procurement, scaling agile communication and the usage of reviews in agile.
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Learning from Startup Mistakes at SpringSource
Rod Johnson, co-founder of SpringSource and now an independent investor, shared some of the lessons learned while growing Spring as a business during his keynote at GOTO Amsterdam 2014.