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Marine Corps Maxims: Principles for Building Strong Test Teams The value the U.S. Marine Corps places on teamwork can improve your software development team as well. Former USMC member Sean Buck shares how correctly applying Marine Corps principles will lead the way toward better, more effective test teams. |
Sean Buck
December 1, 2006 |
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: How Testers Uncover Hidden Requirements The requirements process is not a linear one. In this article, Michael Bolton helps you get in the game by showing how the elements of the requirements process–reference, inference, and conference–interact and influence each other. |
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In Search of Commitment Clarity When planning your workload, it's easy to bite off more than you can chew. But as Michele Sliger explains in this tale of one overachiever's attempt to take on too much work, overcommitting yourself means overcommitting your team. |
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Changing the Hand You're Dealt: Better Designs Through Problem Redefinition Spending a little more time in design can help minimize the complexity of debugging and maximize the likelihood that the elements of a project will come together in the end. Payson Hall uses a parable and a program fragment to show how small changes to the problem can simplify the solution. |
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Simple Ain't Easy: Software Design Myths and Realities The definition of "simple design" varies from person to person. But achieving simplicity isn't just about maintaining simple point solutions. |
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A Look at VMware The more complicated the system to test, the bigger the headache. Chris Meisenzahl takes a look at how you can take the pain out of testing complicated software systems with VMware’s virtualization tools—VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, and VMware ESX Server. |
Christopher J. Meisenzahl
November 6, 2006 |
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The Best-Laid Plans It's a fact of life that plans change, but the proper implementation of agile and release planning can get you back on track. Just be sure to keep the communication lines open and clear throughout the process. Stacia Broderick tells the tale of a department as it works out its kinks in the best interest of its customers. |
Stacia Broderick
November 6, 2006 |
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Rhetoric, Religion, and a Better Way With Apple's conversion to Windows-capable, Intel-based architecture as his jumping off point, Tod Golding takes a look at how we tend to view new technologies through our old perceptions. As technology evolves for the better, he explains, we too must grow out of old rhetoric. |
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Metrics You Can Bet On An old adage says that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, but Mike Cohn thinks differently. Here, he offers suggestions on when to use metrics and when you can manage without, as well as some guidelines to help you choose your metrics carefully. |
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Get in the Game: Agile Lessons from Video Game Developers From providing the likes of Pong boxes to a tiny, niche market to creating graphic-intensive productions that rival the income of Hollywood's box office, the video game industry has boomed in a very short period of time. Find out how agile methods helped one video game studio make the transition. |
Clinton Keith
November 6, 2006 |
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