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FEATURED BOOK: Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Sk... Featured
by Brad Appleton In this book by Jean Tabaka, numerous Agile methods and principles emphasize the value of collaboration and self-organization. Most books on the subject of Agile development discuss principles and practices related to planning and development practices. Yet few Agile books delve deeply into the How To's of collaboration, f ...
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Tackling Offshore Agile Development
by Liz Barnett As an analyst, I have spoken with hundreds of software developers and managers struggling to improve their delivery capabilities. Many are turning to Agile processes as a means to deliver high quality solutions and at the same time improve time to benefits. And, at the same time, these teams need to work with ever-shrinking budget ...
The Agile Manager: An Agile Approach To Managing Distri...
by Ross Pettit Traditional approaches to distributed development impair flexibility: they don't expose what's actually happening on the ground in different locations, they lack common and effective communication channels, and they substitute "hope" for "managed process" when reconciling work. Distributed development should be as responsive to chan ...
Changing Times: Stretched to the Limit
by Kevin Parker When serendipity taps you on the shoulder I've found it best not to ignore the intrusion. I recently got back from an intense trip to India, speaking at several seminars and to a number of our leading customers. On my return I picked up "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman and this book provided me with a deeper perspective on ...
Achieving Agility in Globally Distributed Software Deve...
by Adam Finden In today's business climate there exists an ever-increasing demand to achieve more from less. More return from less investment, faster time to market from shrinking resources, higher quality from collapsing timelines. The impact of these pressures on the software development industry has meant that organizations have had to look fo ...
Agile at Scale: 7+7 Practices for Enterprise Agility
by Dean Leffingwell Part II of II - Seven Additional Practices For Enterprise Agility In part I of this Article, we noted that the benefits of agile software methods, including faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer needs and higher quality are undeniable to those who have mastered these practices. However, these prac ...
Outsourcing Experience Report – LogicLibrary and EPAM
by Brent Carlson LogicLibrary, provider of Logidex, has had an ongoing relationship with EPAM Systems, the largest Eastern European technology outsourcing vendor, for over three years to develop its Logidex technology. This experience report discusses the approaches and tools used by LogicLibrary and EPAM to ensure effective communication an ...
CASE STUDY: Source Medical
by Liz Barnett Birmingham, AL-based Source Medical is a leading and innovative provider of outpatient information management solutions. Source Medical provides registration, scheduling and clinical documentation to billing, collections and revenue cycle management to more than 3,300 clients -- over 20,000 healthcare providers as users. A quickly g ...
The Growing Influence Of Open Source Projects
by Liz Barnett Two years ago, I began writing about the impact that open source development tools, components, processes and organizational models are having on corporate IT shops. I worked with a range of development managers that shared a very similar point of view: instead of dismissing the so-called renegade open source projects, the managers emula ...
The Agile Manager: The Economic Impact of Open Source
by Ross Pettit For many years, pundits have anticipated seismic change from open source. Beyond the high-profile changes, the effects of open source can be seen everywhere in software development today. While still an emergent phenomenon, there are cost, revenue and intangible benefits for any company that becomes an active consumer and contributo ...
Tools and Technology: Open Source Tools for the Agile D...
by Kirk Knoernschild A defining characteristic of agile development is to keep moving forward, recognizing working code as the primary measure of valued software. Undoubtedly, there is no way to judge a software system until you have a system to judge. Yet, experienced developers recognize that requirements frequently change and traditional methods ...
Intellectual Property Management Issues for Development
by Greg Coticchia To maximize intellectual property (IP) value and mitigate risk while operating in an open source application development environment, enterprises need to understand the distinction between real and perceived risks and values by utilizing processes, governance and tools. This is particularly important when involving an outsourcing ...
Tools and Technology: Open Source Tools for the Agile D...
by Kirk Knoernschild A defining characteristic of agile development is to keep moving forward, recognizing working code as the primary measure of valued software. Undoubtedly, there is no way to judge a software system until you have a system to judge. Yet, experienced developers recognize that requirements frequently change and traditional method ...
Supercharge Your Application Development Open Source St...
by Jeff Hodson Today's software developer, like never before, is blessed with a plethora of sophisticated open source tools and technologies to aid his craft in producing market-worthy applications. Leveraging these resources together with the developer's business domain knowledge and agile best practices can quickly yield some truly amazing res ...
CASE STUDY: VA Software
by Chary Aasuri Agile development methodologies aren't one-size-fits-all. Independent software vendors (ISVs) have unique needs-external customers, aggressive release dates and competitive pressures-that require tailoring software development methodologies that work well in corporate IT settings. Faced with a major new project and bogged down by a ...
FEATURED BOOK: Practical Development Environments - by ...
reviewed by Brad Appleton Okay - so you're "doing the ‘Agile' thing" with your software development. How about your development environment? Are all the tools in your development environment truly practical? Does your environment effectively leverage Open Source efforts and Open Source-friendly offerings and vendors?