Refine Your People Skills for Working in a Cloud-Based Development Environment Interfacing with all of the stakeholders in a cloud-based development environment presents unique challenges. Your people skills may very well determine whether or not you get what you need. Read on if you would like to be more effective in developing in the cloud. |
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How to Lose a Customer Giving your clients the opportunity to voice their opinions after conducting business with you is a great way to express your interest in continuing to work with them. Just make sure you're earnest in hearing their thoughts and that you don't simply think this is accomplished with a survey alone. |
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Agile or Not: How to Get Things Done Agile software development always felt intuitive to me. Developing software incrementally, in close collaboration with the customer is the obvious way to deal with the uncertainty inherent in both software requirements and implementation. The technical practices of automating necessary but time consuming tests, and deploying, early and often are the obvious ways to give an team the ability to evaluate the functionality you have and to to decide if the software works as expected. And it's also important to decide if what you built still makes sense given the current environment. |
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Dynamics of a Small Team When Implementing CM and ALM Small teams can have big dynamics that threaten the team’s success in terms of productivity and effectiveness. This article will examine some of the essential people issues that arise when implementing software configuration management (SCM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) with small teams. |
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Top Ten Requirements for Your CM and ALM Strategy Joe Farah takes an in-depth look at the top ten requirements needed for a successful next-generation configuration management and application lifecycle management solution strategy. |
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Release Management and Deployments: Why Is This So Important? Why do we wait to discuss releases and deployments until the last minute? Is this a result of our lack of planning and knowledge, or is there a deeper reason why we fail to plan properly? Joe Townsend digs into the release and deployment portions of the SDLC to try to shed some light on why we tend to neglect these crucial steps. |
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The Agile Success Factor: Continuous Integration Kirk Knoernschild discusses the subtle though significant ways that continuous integration can be leveraged—from helping to align IT with the business to enforcing architectural constraints—and shows that this fundamental aspect of agility is the defining and necessary element of a truly agile development experience. |
Kirk Knoernschild
October 11, 2011 |
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Continuous Learning, Coaching, and Learning from Others There was an article in the Boston Globe recently by Scott Kirshner: Staying Competitive in the Workplace that emphasized the importance of keeping your skills up to date. |
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On SCM and Tools Steve Berczuk was recently was interviewed for an article on SCM and Tools. Updating tools and processes key to overcoming SCM challenges is brief and makes some good points about the relative value of tools compared to understanding what you are trying to accomplish with your process. |
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A Productivity Comparison of Kanban and Scrum Charles Suscheck compares the levels of productivity of Scrum and Kanban through a hands-on experiment that he and his team personally participated in. Learn the upsides and warnings about each practice to help you decide what might work best for you and your team on your next project. |
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