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Methods & Tools - November 2014

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=== Sponsor ===

Scrum Expert

Scrum Expert presents industry news, articles, blog posts, book reviews, tools, videos and other resources about agile software development project management with the Scrum approach.

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*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

XebiaLabs Offers Free Community Edition of XL Deploy & XL Release

Amazon Web Services Announced CodeDeploy ALM Services

Microsoft Takes .NET Open Source with Visual Studio 2015

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

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Software Testing Magazine

Software Testing Magazine presents industry news, articles, blog posts, book reviews, tools, videos and other resources about unit testing, integration testing, functional or acceptance testing, load or performance testing in software development projects.

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*** Numbers ***

Project Management Tools

Our current poll: Does your project use a software tool to plan, estimate and track project activities? Go to our web site to participate and to see intermediate results.

*** Jobs ***

Featured Jobs

Lead Agile Java Developer Architect, Optimus Search , München, Bayern, Germany

Scrum Master, ManTek Consulting, Lansing, MI

Software Engineer, World Travel Holdings, Wilmington, NC

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*** Books ***

Introduction to Agile Methods

With their book "Introduction to Agile Methods", Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan have the goal to provide an introduction of the wide landscape of Agile software development approaches. A very ambitious goal in my mind.

Read the complete review of Introduction to Agile Methods on our web site dedicated to software development books.

Reference: “Introduction to Agile Methods”, Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan, Addison-Wesley, 336 pages, IBSN 978-0321929563

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*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia November 2014

Blog: Fewer Bosses. More Coaches. Please.

Blog: Advice for Agile Coaches on Dealing With Middle Management

Blog: Five ways to make testing more positive

Blog: 9 Things Every Product Manager Should Know about Being an Agile Product Owner

Article: Managing Trust in Distributed Teams

Article: Industrial SOA

Article: Enterprise Data Modeling

Article: Modeling Software Sustainment

Tools: Nightwatch.js - browser automated testing done easy

Tools: OpenCover - a code coverage tool for .NET

Video: Functional Programming: What? Why? When?

Video: Navigating Politics in Agile Teams

Video: Software Testing and Release Engineering at Google

Video: Releasing With Gradle

Video: Practical MySQL Performance Optimization

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

*** Featured Conferences ***

QCon London, March 2-6, 2015, London, UK

Mobile Dev + Test, April 12-17, 2015, San Diego, USA

ProgSCon London, April 17 2015, London, UK
The Call for Submissions is open, accepting proposals until 31.1.2015.

SEI SATURN Software Architecture Conference, April 27-30 2015, Baltimore, USA
The Call for Submissions is open, accepting proposals until 1/16/2015.

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Source: Edward V. Berard (1993) Essays on object-oriented software engineering. Volume 1, Prentice Hall

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