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The Lean Startup Methodology and Its Value for Testers

Testers are rarely part of an entrepreneurial startup team, but are there lessons for them in the lean startup approach? Lee Copeland says yes. The basic idea behind lean startup is that companies should focus their time and resources more efficiently, and this concept surely can benefit testers.

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Lee Copeland
Book Review: Lean UX—Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

Steve Berczuk reviews Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. Through its stories, templates, and guidelines on agile user-experience design, this book will help your team do a better job of building in the best user experience possible.

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Steve Berczuk
How to Keep Your Development Skills Up to Date

If you are a software developer, you work in one of the most dynamic fields. You have to keep your skills up to date in order to stay marketable. But if your company is a “laggard,” how do you prevent being left behind?

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Steve Vaughn
Why Experimentation Should Be Required for Initiating Projects

Sameh Zeid writes that experimentation should be required for initiating projects—no matter the organization’s size—for the simple reason that product features will more than likely be discovered incrementally and iteratively during the project's lifespan.

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Sameh Zeid
Why We Need a New Model for Project Governance

We all know that organizations establish a project management office (PMO) as their main model for project governance. However, this does not provide a competitive advantage that allows organizations to respond to ever-increasing customer needs.

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Sameh Zeid