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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - February 2013

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*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia February 2012

Blog: A Scrum Product Owner Checklist

Blog: How to create a User Story Map

Blog: Effective Steps to reduce technical debt: An agile approach

Blog: Top 5 TDD Mistakes

Article: Scaling the Sprint Review: The Fair

Article: Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product (PDF)

Article: Choose the best PaaS cloud for your needs

Article: SQL Injection through HTTP Headers

Article: Using Commercial Scrum Tools for Free

Tools: TestMob, a distributed Javascript unit test system

Tools: Cmockery, unit tests for C applications

Video: Software Developers: The Prima Donnas of the 21st Century

Video: Software Testing Strategy Introduction

Video: From Requirements to Automated Tests and Back

Video: Web Performance and Load Testing with VS2012 Ultimate

Video: JSF, GWT, SpringMVC and Wicket Compared

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

*** Books ***

Agile Project Management for Government

Although the book is clearly focused on software development projects in a government context, I think that it can have a wider appeal, because some of the dysfunctional behaviors of some government organization can also be observed in private (especially large) corporation where the importance on control processes and the dispersion of responsibilities exist.

Read the complete review of Agile Project Management for Government

Reference: Agile Project Management for Government, Brian Wernham, Maitland & Strong, 289 pages, IBSN 978-0-957223400

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Teams that are capable of delivering iteratively should think about working on one goal at a time. Five consecutive milestones where each fulfils one business objective are generally better than one milestone that fulfils five partially, because the landscape might change after you fulfil a key objective.

Source: Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic, Provoking Thoughts Ltd

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*** Conferences ***

Agile India, February 26 - March 4 2013, Bengaluru, India

SPTechCon, March 3-6 2013, San Francisco, USA

EclipseCon 2013, March 25-28, 2013, Boston, USA

STARCANADA, April 8–12 2013, Toronto, Canada

Big Data TechCon, April 8-10 2013, Boston, USA

GOTO Zurich, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland

GOTO Zurich for Leaders, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland

JAX, April 22-26 2013, Mainz, Germany

ICSE 2013, May 18-26 2013, San Francisco, USA

Android DevCon Spring, May 28-31 2013, Boston, USA

International PHP Conference, June 2-5 2013, Berlin, Germany

JaxConf, June 3-5 2013, Santa Clara, USA

webinale, June 3-5 2013, Berlin, Germany

Scrum Day, June 11-12 2013, Berlin, Germany

GOTO Amsterdam, June 18-20 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SPTechCon, August 11-14 2013, Boston, USA

Agile On The Beach, 5-6 September 2013, Falmouth Cornwall UK

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 14-16 2013, Portland, USA

Android DevCon West, November 12-15 2013, San Francisco

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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline

In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Distributed Software Testing Teams
* Hiring Agile Software Developers
* ACID Rules for NOSQL Databases
* Scrum and Risk Management
* Mobile Apps Performance Testing
* Software Craftmanship
* NINJA-IDE
* Saga
* Behat
* LibrePlan
* Codeception
* RoboSpock
* git-TFS
* Portofino
* Concordion+