Small Teams in a Large Organization Ben Weatherall writes that the need to tailor existing SCM tools should be kept to a minimum and the solutions be implemented is such a way as to be reused in the future. Additional SCM requirements for these teams over and above those already in place are generally modest. |
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Volunteering to Help and Learn At the Agile 2009 Conference, the LiveAid lab created an iPhone application to enable people to donate to the Mano a Mano charitable organization. This lab was an opportunity for participants to learn something new, practice their craft, donate their time to a worthy cause, and meet other folks. By the end of the conference, the application was working and had collected over $10,000 in donations.
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Agile Teamwork - A Stumbling Block or a Stepping Stone to High Performance? Back in the 90’s self-managed teams were all the rage but they had a high rate of failure mainly because team members lacked people skills. These ideas of self-managed teams were borrowed by the Agile movement when in 2001 they formulated a ‘new’ way of working, based on Agile principles. However, self-managed teams only work well when team members understand a lot about human behavior and why people do the things they do!
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Personal Retrospectives We spend our time at work reflecting on our team's progress. We look for the root cause of problems to identify ways to make our work life better. |
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White Paper: Test Process Assessments This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations. Whether or not an organization has a dedicated testing team, today's testing is being completed more often by product managers, business analysts, customers, and programmers in addition to traditional testers. Evaluating all of these testing practices through a unified lens, using a maturity scoring scale that looks at all key testing responsibilities and functions, can be accomplished with the application of tried and true assessment frameworks. |
Marwan Zeineddine
December 31, 2009 |
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Rocks into Gold: Part 3 This short book by Clarke Ching is a "biztech" parable for software developers who want to survive—and then thrive—through the credit crunch. We have republished the book in a four-part series. In part three, when things seem at their very worst, Bob has a "light bulb moment" that just might save the day. Follow the story as our characters fight to keep their jobs by implementing creative business ideas and management skills taken from agile development. |
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Applying Entry-Level Process Definition Standards: ISO/IEC/IEEE The previous part of this article described ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288, the standards describing life cycle processes for software and systems. The standards are not just for process-heavy users. This part of the article will explain how entry-level users can apply the two standards. |
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Three Wishes for Software Configuration Management (SCM) Joe Farah writes of three Christmas wishes he has for the world of software configuration management (SCM). If we do these key things properly, we won't just see an jump in SCM maturity. We'll see a fire that spreads the wealth. |
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The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM—and the Rise of Lean SCM There are definite signs of Agile methods (with a capital A) may be losing mind share or, at the very least, suffering from a certain amount of perhaps over-hype or over familiarity. Or maybe it is just the rise in cases of AFS (Agile Fatigue Syndrome). For some, agile is giving away to the rise of lean software development. Where will it end? |
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The State of IT Change Through clear lines of communication, and dedicated SCM processes, change in the IT world can occur without negatively affecting the company as a whole. By giving IT change the attention and focus it deserves, transitions become smoother, and less costly than when IT change is shortsighted. |
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