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Virtual Training Made Easy in the Cloud

Virtual training has been gaining popularity in recent years due to two factors: reduced budgets in today’s economy and the wealth of knowledge required for employees to keep abreast of current trends and technologies. Learn how the cloud in particular is making virtual training a reality.

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Jordan Kisor
How to Bring Requirements to Life

A key skill of the business analyst is to elicit and analyze requirements and to help stakeholders consider a range of possible solutions. Because abstract and logical requirements are extremely hard to digest, Adrian Reed offers concrete ideas on how you can bring requirements to life.

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Adrian Reed
Using the Cloud to Build SaaS Applications the Right Way

Many traditional applications companies have rushed to roll out SaaS versions of their products without fully thinking through how an application architected to work in a traditional corporate IT environment might need to change to fit far different SaaS implementation requirements.

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Beth Cohen
The Sunny Future for Cloud Management Tools

An emerging class of enterprise-ready, cloud management tools is in various stages of development, launch, or production, Beth Cohen takes a look at the more mature platforms, the up and coming tools, and the various categories of cloud management tools on the market today.

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Beth Cohen
Moving Beyond a Superficial Understanding of Agile

While agile is almost universally hailed, the majority of executives only have a "superficial" understanding of the methodology. Steve Vaughn explains that this level of understanding by upper management is a serious impediment to the necessary culture change that needs to take place.

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Steve Vaughn
What Jobs Do Your Stakeholders Want Done?

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) theory is intended to help stakeholders think about their products and services by considering how their customers like to use them. Kent McDonald delves into the JTBD theory and its benefits to a product delivery team.

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Kent J. McDonald
Why Agile Doesn't Always Work

There are plenty of people who don’t believe agile development is worth the hype. And they may be right. Find out why some people are so opposed to agile.

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Mike Brown
Merging IaaS and PaaS Platforms—Why We Should Care

Until recently, the OpenStack community was mostly concerned with building stable infrastructure platform functionality and viability. Now that it is robust enough for production, it is time to invest effort into integration with PaaS tools. Beth Cohen examines the options for integrated solutions.

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Beth Cohen