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Methods & Tools - March 2018
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Last Articles Published on Methods & Tools Website

How To Hire Product Owners Many companies try to hire Product Owners (or Product Managers) with "many years of previous experience from the role" and with "many years of experience from their specific technical solution" or product but that is looking for a needle in a haystack (wishful thinking), prone to bias because eventually, and instead of waiting for this unique person to come along, you select the person you liked the most, and you risk hiring someone poorly matched to your needs and conditions. Read more...

Owl - Open Source RSpec Test Reporting Tool Owl is an open source tool used for the reporting and presentation of tests results achieved using the RSpec open source testing tool. Read more...

*** Quote of the Month ***

Big design up front is dumb. Doing no design up front is even dumber.

Source: Dave Thomas on Twitter https://twitter.com/simonbrown/status/972767064170561537

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