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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - June 2013

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Software Development Linkopedia June 2013

Web site: Agile Dictionnary

Blog: Clean Code Cheat Sheet

Blog: Duplication is a Rampant Disease

Blog: What is a User Story?

Blog: Three Tips for New ScrumMasters

Article: Why Programmers Need Design Patterns to Communicate Effectively

Article: Spikes and the Effort-to-Grief Ratio

Article: Annotation based Dependency Injection in Spring 3 and Hibernate 3 Framework

Article: Secrets to Successful Automated Testing with Watir

Article: Best Practices to Integrate Software Architecture Needs in A Scrum Project

Tools: Selenide is a wrapper for Selenium WebDriver

Tools: Enhance PHP is a lightweight Open Source PHP unit testing framework

Video: Writing Well-Abstracted Self-Testing Automation

Video: Being Honest in Project Management

Video: Agile Requirements by Example

Video: Integrating the Object Oriented and Functional Styles in Design

Video: A Geek Guide to Leading Teams

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*** Quote of the Month ***

The reason that most software developers don’t seem to get excited about meeting cost and schedule commitments is that these usually are not team goals. Although management may think that cost and schedule are important, typically no one ever tells the team why these goals are important, and the team isn’t involved in making the commitments. As far as typical software teams are concerned, management makes the cost and schedule commitments, and the team meet them if the can. In fact, the team often think that management’s requested commitments are totally unreasonable, but because they are paid to do what management asks, they give it the old school try.

Source: Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust, Watts S. Humphrey and James W. Over, Addison-Wesley

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

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Agile2013, August 5-9 2013, Nashville, USA

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

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Better Software Conference East, November 10–15, 2013, Boston, USA

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

DevOps Summit: Implementing DevOps, November 14 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
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