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Methods & Tools - August 2015

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=== Sponsor ===

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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Acknowledging that something isn't working takes courage. Many organizations encourage people to spin things in the most positive light rather than being honest. This is counterproductive. Telling people what they want to hear just defers the inevitable realization that they won't get what they expected. It also takes from them the opportunity to react to the information.

Source: Steve Berczuk in "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Extended", Shirish Padalkar, Leanpub

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

Apache Subversion 1.9 Available

ZenHub Launches GitHub-embedded Project Management Tool

HP to Acquire ActiveState's Stackato Cloud Platform

Rapise 3.1 Released

ZeroTurnaround Gets $5 Million in Series B Financing

Get all software development industry news and search for tools on SoftDevTools.com

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=== Sponsor ===

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia July 2015

Blog: 7 Best Practices for Facilitating Agile Retrospectives

Blog: How Pairing Powers Remote Teams

Blog: T-Shaped Testers and their role in a team

Article: Cloud Computing and SOA

Article: The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design

Article: Changing Team Mindsets to Adopt Exploratory Testing

Article: A Project Management Office (PMO) View of Agile

Tools: Commit Entropy computes the entropy of changes in a source code

Tools: DB Test Driven - unit testing for database test-driven development

Video: Introvert? Extrovert? Klingon? We’ve Got You Covered

Video: Scrum Mythbusters

Video: Moving Away from Legacy Code with BDD

Video: The Three Kinds of Coders

Find more interesting links on the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site or the software development videos web site.

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*** Featured Conferences ***

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SharePoint Technology Conference, August 24-27 2015, Boston, USA
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Agile on the Beach, September 3-4 2015, Falmouth, UK

Agile Greece Summit, September 18 2015, Athens, Greece

STARWEST - Software Testing Conference, September 27 - October 2 2015, Anaheim, CA, USA
Register with code SWCM and save up to an additional $200

Top Conf Bucharest, September 28-29 2015, Bucharest, Romania

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 12-14, Portland, USA

JAX London, October 12-14, London, UK
Save 10% on your ticket with this discount code: MP_MAT10

Bosnia Agile Day 2015, October 17, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Agile Tour London, October 23, London, UK

Big Data TechCon, November 2-4 2015, Chicago, USA

Agile Development Conference, Better Software Conference & DevOps Conference East, November 8-13, 2015, Orlando, USA
Use promo code COLLE15 and save up to an additional $200!

TopConf Tallinn, November 18-19 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

XP Days Benelux, December 3-4 2015, Mechelen, Belgium

TopConf Linz, February 2-3 2016, Linz, Austria

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