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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - October 2013

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*** Books ***

Implementing Domain-Driven Design

This book is not an introduction to the DDD world, but a very detailed (close to 600 pages) technical approach about what it takes to successfully implement DDD in a company. I recommend this book to every software architect and software developer concerned with the architecture and long term evolution of the applications that they develop.

Read the complete review of Implementing Domain-Driven Design

Reference: Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Vaughn Vernon, Addison-Wesley, 583 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-83457-7

Get more reviews on this book or buy it on amazon.com
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*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia October 2013

Blog: The Business Analyst’s Role – Clear as Mud

Blog: Migrate Idea

Blog: What It Takes to Do Large Scale Technical Agile

Blog: Evolution and the culture of an adaptive organisation

Article: How to Form Teams in Large-Scale Scrum? A Story of Self-Designing Teams

Article: Test automation and continuous integration with STAF/STAX

Article: Functional Programming Basics

Article: PHPUnit Tips & Tricks

Tools: Needle – a lightweight framework for testing Java EE components

Tools: PyVows – an asynchronous behavior driven development (BDD) for Python

Video: Practical Backlog Prioritization in Scrum

Video: UX by Developers

Video: Treating Legacy System in Practice

Video: Distributed Databases Panel at Google I/O 2013

Video: Making a Good Business Analyst Great

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.

*** Quote of the Month ***

The first thing to realize when formulating your first DoD (Definition of Done) is that it isn’t cast in stone. You don’t need to spend an eternity deliberating what it should be, because it can evolve over time

Source: Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Ilan Goldstein, Addison-Wesley

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*** Conferences ***

Jazoon, October 22-23 2013, Zurich, Switzerland

TestExpo Transforming Testing: Identifying Solutions that Work, October 24 2013, London, UK

International PHP Conference, October 27-30, Munich, Germany

WebTech Conference, October 27-30, Munich, Germany

QA&TEST, October 27-30 2013, Bilbao, Spain

Agile Tour London, November 1 2013, London, UK

JAX, November 4-8, Munich, Germany

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

Android DevCon West, November 12-15 2013, San Francisco
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DevOps Summit: Implementing DevOps, November 14 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

SEPG Europe Conference, November 14-15 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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*** Our News ***

Methods & Tools Article Pipeline

In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Agile Software Architecture Sketches
* Software Craftmanship
* Toyota Kata
* UX Runway and Scrum
* Scrum and Risk Management
* GVM (Groovy enVironment Manager)
* Selenide