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Methods & Tools - June 2014
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Kanban for Skeptics
At the beginning of his book Kanban for skeptics, Nick Oostvogels says "By listing the 5 most common arguments against Kanban and my response to them, I hope to help people in their Kanban journey and build great organizations that create amazing products." I will say that this goal is fairly well achieved… and there is even an additional argument against Kanban answered at the end of the book.
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Reference: “Kanban for skeptics – Clear answers to Kanban in software development”, Nick Oostvogels Get this book on LeanPub
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Software Development Linkopedia June 2014
Blog: Calculating Velocity FAQ
Blog: Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 1 – Anti-patterns and their fixes
Blog: Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 2 – Refactor away anti-patterns
Blog: Creating options by slicing features - #NoEstimates technique
Article: Agile Retrospectives: Why They Matter
Article: First Sketches of an App: Planning the Design of a Mobile Application
Article: Branching and Merging: Ten Pretty-Good Practices
Article: Differences in style between Java and Scala code
Tools: CAT CORE - an open source automation framework for mobile-web applications testing
Tools: Cylon.js is a JavaScript framework for robotics
Video: Strict Test-Driven Development
Video: Martin Fowler and Neil Ford Explain Agile
Video: The Joy of Making Tools
Video: Think Before Using NoSQL on your Next Project
Video: Spring Single Page Applications
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A UX team that deals with only the details of radio buttons and check boxes is committing a disservice to its organization. Today UX groups must deal with strategy.
Source: Institutionalization of UX (2nd Edition), Eric Schaffer & Apala Lahiri, Addison-Wesley
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