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Methods & Tools - May 2015

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Agile methods ask practitioners to think, and frankly, that's a hard sell. It is far more comfortable to simply follow what rules are given and claim you’re "doing it by the book." It’s easy, it’s safe from ridicule or recrimination; you won't get fired for it. While we might publicly decry the narrow confines of a set of rules, there is safety and comfort there. But of course, to be agile – or effective – isn't about comfort […]. And if you only pick a handful of rules that you feel like following, and ignore the hard ones, then you've got it made! You are "doing agile" if anyone asks, and you can focus your energy on enforcing a small set of largely useless rules. Everyone feels better. Until it's time to actually ship something.

Source: Andy Hunt, "The Failure of Agile", http://blog.toolshed.com/2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html

*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

Community Edition of MemSQL Launched

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Tricentis Tosca Testsuite Integrates Selenium

352 Inc. Launches PlanningPoker.com

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Software Configuration Management Handbook

This book is the third edition of the Software Configuration Management Handbook written by Alexis Leon. The first edition was first published in 2000. This books aims to explain what software configuration management is and how it should be practiced in the software development process.