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Methods & Tools - September 2016

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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The [Product Owner] role is still incredibly broad, incredibly nuanced and incredibly challenging for a single individual to do well. I've probably met 2-300 product owners over the last five or so years and I think perhaps 3-5 of them were doing an outstanding job across all the aspects of the role. So we’re still not setting up the Product Owner role (and the individuals) within it for success.

Source: Scrum Product Ownership (2nd Edition), Robert Galen

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

Citrix Releases Free Developer Version of NetScaler Load Balancer for Microservices

Komodo IDE 10.1 Released

CollabNet Released New TeamForge Version

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

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*** Books ***

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The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes

His name is Darius Blasband and he is a codeaholic. This is how one of the first chapter of the book The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes is titled. You should therefore expect to read this book as a conversation that you could have with a colleague in his 50s around a glass of nice (Belgian) beer. There are some recipes and a lot of software in this book, but everything is written from a very personal point of view.

Read the review and quotes from The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes.

Reference: The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes, Darius Blasband, Reality Bites Publishing

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia September 2016

Blog: Finding Time to Become a Better Developer

Blog: A Compendium of Software Architects' Pathologies

Blog: Becoming a Tech Lead: How I've Balanced Coding with Coaching

Blog: Good Product Owners Delete Product Backlog Items

Article: When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps

Article: Modifying Behavior with Sprint Data

Article: Mobilize an Existing Web Site

Article: Distributed Testing with Selenium Grid

Tools: Kanbanik - open source Kanban board

Tools: MarkupKit - open source framework to develop native iOS applications

Video: Delivering Agile in Hostile Environments

Video: Testing Microservices with Citrus

Video: The Good Parts of Domain Driven Design

Video: Continuous Integration & Delivery at Lego

Video: Testing Microservices

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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