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Methods & Tools - December 2014

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*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

JetBrains Releases Upsource Code Review Tool That Knows Java Code

Parasoft Development Testing Platform (DTP) Supports Shift to Continuous Testing

TenKod Announces Continuous Integration for Amazon Cloud Mobile Application Testing

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*** Numbers ***

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*** Jobs ***

Featured Jobs

Programmer Analyst, New York Presbyterian, New York City, NY

Applications Developer, UPS, Alpharetta, GA

Sofware Engineer, Raytheon, Reston, VA

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*** Books ***

Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories

Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories is another book from Gojko Adzic, a consultant and author that already produced some very good books like Impact Mapping and Specification by Example. The goal of this book is to help people involved with Agile requirements to improve their discussion with the stakeholders and the planning activities associated with user stories. This is clearly not a book for beginners on how to write user stories.

Read the complete review of Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories on our web site dedicated to software development books.

Reference: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, Gojko Adzic and David Evans, http://leanpub.com/50quickideas

*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia December 2014

Blog: The Case for Slow Programming

Blog: Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence

Blog: Climbing off the CTO ladder

Blog: What Does QA Do on the First Day of a Sprint?

Blog: Stop Writing Code You Can’t Yet Test

Article: Designing Software in a Distributed World

Article: Tips to Conduct Effective Joint Product Backlog Refinement Meetings in a Scaled Way

Article: Being a Better Test Leader or Test Manager

Article: Agile and Scrum Trello Extensions

Tools: PlanITpoker - Online Scrum planning poker for Agile project teams

Tools: JGiven - A developer-centric Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool for Java.

Video: The Evolution of a Software Developer

Video: What We Can Learn From COBOL

Video: A Bit of Agile in Waterfall Project Approach

Video: Test, Transform and Refactor

Video: Dealing With Smelly Java Code

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*** Featured Conferences ***

SPTechCon, February 8-11 2015, Austin, USA
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NorDevCon, February 27 2015, Norwich, UK

QCon London, March 2-6, 2015, London, UK

Wearables TechCon, March 9-11 2015, Santa Clara, USA
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Mobile Dev + Test, April 12-17, 2015, San Diego, USA

ProgSCon London, April 17 2015, London, UK
The Call for Submissions is open, accepting proposals until 31.1.2015.

SEI SATURN Software Architecture Conference, April 27-30 2015, Baltimore, USA
The Call for Submissions is open, accepting proposals until 1/16/2015.

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Stories shouldn't be small because they need to fit into an iteration, but because the world shouldn't end just because a story turns out to be wrong. Stories are based on assumptions about business value, and those assumptions might turn out to be right or wrong. The key questions for story sizing shouldn't be about the iteration length, but about how much business stakeholders want to invest in learning whether a proposed change will actually give them what they assumed.

Source: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, Gojko Adzic and David Evans, http://leanpub.com/50quickideas

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