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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - April 2013
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Scrum Still a Minority in Software Project Management?
As Agile approaches like Scrum are supposed to be dominant for enterprise software project management, the latest Methods & Tools survey asked the following question: Which project management approach is used by your project? The results make us think that the situation is a little bit more complex than the generally accepted opinion. Read the complete survey results and analysis
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*** Linkopedia ***
Software Development Linkopedia April 2013
Web site: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Java Coding Standard (PDF)
Web site: Guidelines for Unit Testing Python Code
Web site: The Agile Atlas
Article: Basing Earned Value on Technical Performance (PDF)
Article: Ten Tips for Constructing an Agile Database Development Environment that Works
Article: Taking on a Project in Difficulties
Article: Iteration Retrospective Activity: Turn the Tables
Article: QTP Best Practices
Article: Dot NET Assemblies and Strong Name Signature
Tools: Zucchini, a visual iOS testing framework
Tools: cipra, a C++11 unit testing framework
Video: How Good Acceptance Test Can Make Your Team Happier
Video: Requirements Gathering with Mind Maps
Video: Enterprise Application Integration Patterns for Java in the Cloud
Video: Then Our Buildings Shape Us
Video: Eventual Database Consistency
Find more interesting links on the software development directory, the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site, the software development blogs or the software development videos web site.
*** Books ***
Liftoff – Launching Agile Teams & Projects
You have only one chance to make a good first impression. You might have also only one chance to start your project in a good context. Actually not, but this small book from Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies will give you all the material to manage the start (or re-start) of your software development project.
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Reference: Liftoff – Launching Agile Teams & Projects, Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies, Onyx Neon Press
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*** Quote of the Month ***
Items on the Product Backlog should be requirements in the domain of the customer or user – addressing their needs, in their language and of value to them. Test of a good Product Backlog? Your customers immediately understand every item
Source: Practices for Scaling Lean and Agile Development – Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley
*** Conferences ***
STAREAST, April 28–May 3 2013, Orlando, USA
GeeCON, May 15-18 2013, Krakow, Poland
ICSE 2013, May 18-26 2013, San Francisco, USA
DevOps Summit Europe: Enabling DevOps, 23 May 2013, London, UK
NxtGenTesting – Next Generation Testing conference, 23 May 2013, London, UK
Android DevCon Spring, May 28-31 2013, Boston, USA
Better Software & Agile Development Conference West, June 2-7 2013, Las Vegas, USA
International PHP Conference, June 2-5 2013, Berlin, Germany
JaxConf, June 3-5 2013, Santa Clara, USA
webinale, June 3-5 2013, Berlin, Germany
Scrum Day, June 11-12 2013, Berlin, Germany
GOTO Amsterdam, June 18-20 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Agile2013, August 5-9 2013, Nashville, USA
SPTechCon, August 11-14 2013, Boston, USA
Agile On The Beach, 5-6 September 2013, Falmouth Cornwall UK
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 14-16 2013, Portland, USA
Android DevCon West, November 12-15 2013, San Francisco
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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Scrum and Risk Management
* Mobile Apps Performance Testing
* Distributed Software Testing Teams
* Business Patters for Software Developers
* Scrum Spring Length
* Teaching the Value of Acceptance Tests
* Software Craftmanship
* API Design
* Apache Isis
* Zuchinni
* GVM (Groovy enVironment Manager)
* git-TFS
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