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Methods & Tools - April 2019
Sharing global software development expertise since 1993

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=== Sponsor ===

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5 Ways to Time Travel Test [Whitepaper]

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*** Updates ***

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Last Articles Published on Methods & Tools Website

Measuring And Increasing Team Alignment Learn how to build extraordinary teams and organizations with alignment among team members to ensure consistently high performance and successful projects. Read more...

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*** From The Archives ***

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Articles from Methods & Tools' Archives

Software Developer Careers Considered Harmful Today we are told that we need careers, constant happiness and are never allowed to fail because otherwise terrible things would happen. But the statistics on depression and burn-out prove us there is something wrong with this thinking. This article elaborates on a few thoughts and explains, how getting rid of a career made it more "successful" than ever. Read more...

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=== Sponsor ===

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Join the Agile Community in Chicago, June 23-27, 2019

Agile Testing Days USA provides a fun way to get deep insights and the latest developments in testing and agile excellence as well as a platform for networking within the agile community. Afterwards, relax at the historic Palmer House Hotel located in the heart of the theatre, financial, and shopping districts of downtown Chicago. Explore the Program Now!

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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Agile does not mean delivering faster. Agile does not mean fewer defect or higher quality. Agile does not mean higher productivity. Agile means agile - the ability to move with quick easy grace, to be nimble and adaptable. To embrace change and become masters of change - to compete through adaptability by being able to change faster than your competition can.

Perhaps faster delivery and higher quality will be achieved with an agile method such as Scrum, but it is vital for business and engineering leaders to appreciate that the raison d'etre of agile methods is... agility. Furthermore, it is vital to appreciate that organizational agility cannot be achieved by a development team in isolation - it is a system challenge for organizational redesign. Especially when you are interested in large-scale Scrum within an R&D department of thousands, where each product group may have 200 or 700 people distributed in two or five sites around the world. If an engineering team has the technical capacity to adapt or change quickly, but requirements management, legal practices, product management, HR policies, site strategies, and deployment processes all emphasize rigidity, conformance to original plans, conformance to the status quo, and slow practices, then how can there be real agility?

Source: "Scaling Lean & Agile Development - Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum", Craig Larman & Bas Vodde, Addison-Wesley

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*** Books ***

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Continuous Digital

Continuous Digital is the companion book of the Project Myopia book also written by Allan Kelly. Both books are related to its viewpoint that software development activity needs a better framework that the project approach to be successful. If Project Myopia is the book describing the concepts behind his proposal, Continuous Digital provides the "how to".

Read the review and quotes from Continuous Digital.

Reference: Continuous Digital, An agile alternative to projects, Allan Kelly, https://leanpub.com/cdigital

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=== Web Sponsors ===

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This month, the Methods & Tools website is supported by Software Testing Magazine and Scrum Expert. We thank them for their support.

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*** Software Development Linkopedia ***

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Text: UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies

Text: Four Types of Shift Left Testing

Text: Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Text: On Writing Tech Specs

Text: Uncomplicate TDD and BDD

Text: On Being A Senior Engineer

Text: Power Up Your Team with Nonviolent Communication Principles

Reports: Scrum Master Trends Report 2019

Reports: Accelerate State of DevOps 2018

Video: Lessons Learned in 15 Years of Building Software

Video: PopcornFlow: Making Change Continuous

Video: Failure Testing: Breaking Things on Purpose

Video: ASP.NET Core One Hour Makeover

Video: Java Unit Testing: Spock versus JUnit 5

Video: Better SAFe Than Sorry

Tools: CROSSMINER enables the monitoring, in-depth analysis and evidence-based selection of open source components, and facilitates knowledge extraction from large open-source software repositories.

Tools: SpotBugs is the spiritual successor of FindBugs, carrying on from the point where it left off with support of its community. This open source tools performs static analysis to look for bugs in Java code

Tools: Free Online Kanban Tools

Tools: Open Source JavaScript Code Analysis

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*** Promoted Software Development Conferences ***

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Big Apple Scrum Day, May 10 2019, New York, USA

GeeCon, May 15-17 2019, Krakow, Poland

XP 2019, May 21-25 2019, Montreal, Canada

ACE! Agile Central Europe, May 23-24 2019, Krakow, Poland

Agile + DevOps West, June 2-7, 2019, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Agile Testing Days USA, June 23-27, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA

Agile on the Beach, July 11-12 2019, Falmouth, UK

Agile Alliance Agile2019, August 5-9 2019, Washington DC, USA

Agile Crete & SoCraTes, September 5-7 2019, Kolymbari, Greece

Agile Prague, September 16-17 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 14-16 2019, Portland, USA The Call for Proposals is open now. The deadline is May 1st 2019.

Agile Tour London, October 18 2019, London, UK

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