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Methods & Tools - December 2016

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The User Story Considered Harmful, A White Paper by James & Suzanne Robertson

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Experience shows that architecting is not something that's performed once, early in a project. Rather, architecting is applied over the life of the project; the architecture is grown through the delivery of a series of incremental and iterative deliveries of executable software. At each delivery, the architecture becomes more complete and stable, which raises the obvious question of what the focus of the architect is through the life of the project.
Successful software architecting efforts are results-driven. Thus, the focus of the architect changes over time as the desired results change over time. [...]
It should be noted that the concerns of discovery, invention, and implementation are not strictly sequential. Some implementation occurs early in the project as architectural prototypes are constructed, and some discovery occurs late in the project as lessons are learned and different strategies for implementing certain elements of the architecture are put in place.

Source: The Process of Software Architecting, Peter Eeles & Peter Cripps, Addison-Wesley

*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

PHP 7.0.0 Released

Node.js Foundation To Oversee Node.js Security Project

SonarSource Receives $45 Million USD Minority Investment

JFrog Acquires Conan

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*** Books ***

Xanpan – Team Centric Agile Software Development

At the beginning of his book, Allan Kelly describes Xanpan as both a method and a philosophy, his philosophy on how software is, or should be, created, and how Agile works, or should work. If Xanpan is basically a mix of XP (eXtreme programming) and Kanban, it contains ideas and techniques of other Agile and Lean approaches, focusing on how teams should work together to deliver better software and value.