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Methods & Tools - March 2016

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=== Sponsor ===

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Don’t Miss Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps West, June 5–10, Las Vegas, NV

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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Large organizations present serious challenges, but for the manager of such an organization they typically revolve around managing managers, not just programmers.

Source: Managing the Unmanageable, Mickey W. Mantle & Ron Lichty, Addison-Wesley

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

Appvance Raises $5 Million

Tasktop Releases DevOps Integration Hub

Rapise 4.0 Released

Xamarin Acquired by Microsoft

IBM and GitHub Form Strategic Partnership

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

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=== Sponsor ===

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Enov8 are pleased to announce the launch of "EcoSystem OR" for Organizational Resilience. An enterprise governance framework that allows you to better manage your Business & IT resilience and recovery needs.

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*** Books ***

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The Art of Visualising Software Architecture

"The Art of Visualising Software Architecture" is a book written by Simon Brown to discuss the problem of the representation of software architecture. For the author, software developers mostly lack the skills needed for an effective visual communication of their software architecture.

Read the review and quotes from The Art of Visualising Software Architecture.

Reference: The Art of Visualising Software Architecture, Simon Brown, Leanpub

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia March 2016

Web site: Praxis is a free framework for the management of projects, programmes and portfolios

Blog: The Product Owner’s Guide to the Sprint Retrospective

Blog: Exploring Session-Based Testing

Blog: The Zen of Missing Out on The Next Great Programming Tool

Blog: Rule One of Management: First, Do No Harm

Article : Why Organizations Don’t Learn

Article: Good Product Backlog Refinement

Article: Documentation in Scrum Projects

Article: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Article: Scrum Sprint Retrospective Problems

Article: Crafting a Mobile Software Testing Strategy

Tools: RuboCop is an open source Ruby static code analyzer

Tools: Argus Eyes is a lightweight CLI tool for visual regression testing

Video: Automate Your Software Development

Video: Scaling Agile: Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Video: The Power of Pair Testing

Video: Concise UI Tests in Java with Selenide

Video: Metrics to Drive High Performance Scrum Teams

Video: Java EE Integration with Camel

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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*** Partner Software Development Conferences ***

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Lean and Agile ME Summit, March 19 2016, Dubai, UAE

Agile Alliance Technical Conference, April 7-9 2016, Raleigh, USA

ACE!, April 14-15 2016, Krakow, Poland

Mobile and IoT Dev + Test, April 17–22, 2016, San Diego, USA
Register using exclusive code, MDCM, and save up to an additional $200 off

Testing Showcase Midlands, April 21 2016, Birmingham, UK

ProgSCon London, April 22 2016, London, UK

STAREAST - Software Testing Conference, May 1-6 2016, Orlando, FL, USA
Register by April 1 using code SECM and save up to an additional $200

SEI SATURN Software Architecture Conference, May 2-5 2016, San Diego, USA

Baltic DevOps, May 10 2016, Tallinn, Estonia

GeeCon, May 11-13 2016, Krakow, Poland

Big Apple Scrum Day, May 16 2016, New York, USA

Testing Showcase Dublin, May 19 2016, Dublin, Ireland

I T.A.K.E. Unconference, May 19-20 2016, Bucharest, Romania

GOTO Chicago, May 23-26 2016, Chicago, USA

Agile Development, Better Software & DevOps Conferences, June 5-10 2016, Las Vegas, USA

QCon NewYork, June 13-17 2016, New York, USA
Call for Speakers until April 12 2016

GOTO Amsterdam, June 13-15 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Call for Papers ends March 13

Devoxx Poland, 22 - 25 June 2016, Krakow, Poland

Agile2016, July 25-29, Atlanta, USA

Agile on the Beach, September 1-2 2016, Falmouth, UK

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 17-19, 2016, Portland, USA
Call for Speakers until April 10 2016

TopConf Tallinn, November 16-19 2016, Tallinn, Estonia

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