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Poronkusema and the Challenges of the English Language There are many words in other dialects that have no equivalent in English. These language peculiarities suggest that we need to allow for errors when working on projects with team members whose first language isn't English. But what about communication intended for a professional audience? Read on. |
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Meetings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Meetings are a crucial part of the communication process, but they endure a lot of ridicule. You can’t do away with them entirely—meetings are essential to an agile process like Scrum. Rather than avoiding all meetings, it’s better to work at making the times you meet with people more effective. |
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The New Me Generation: Millions of Millennials This year, the number of self-centered millennials is projected to finally overtake the self-centered baby boomers. As customers, employees, and contract workers, the sheer number of millennials makes them a force to pay attention to as they approach their prime spending years. |
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Managers Are Still Good for Self-Organizing Agile Teams When teams self-organize to deliver software and solve problems, they can be more robust, effective, and directed. But this begs the question: If agile teams self-organize, do they really need managers? Yes, they do. Managers help create conditions that help teams thrive. Read on to find out how. |
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Let’s Stop Discussing Post-Agile: We Still Can’t Agree on Agile Some people in the software world feel that agile focuses too much on problems of the past. These people have moved on to what's being called post-agile, which shakes up the process. Johanna Rothman, however, thinks they're getting ahead of themselves—first, we need to keep working to achieve agile. |
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Creating High-Performance, Cross-Functional DevOps Teams DevOps provides strategies to automate and streamline your application build, package, and deployment. Excellent tools and technology are imperative, but even more essential is leading your team to work together effectively. Read on to learn what makes a high-performance, cross-functional team. |
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Accessibility Testing: Four Tips for Doing It Right If you are feeling a little overwhelmed by the extra effort involved in delivering accessible software, don’t be dismayed. Melissa Tondi offers four tips to get you started with an efficient and long-term accessibility testing initiative that will result in a happy experience for all users. |
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Will Facebook at Work Redefine the Way We Work? Facebook recently unveiled a pilot program for Facebook at Work. Piggy-backing on their enormous success with social networking, Facebook seems to be on a mission to redefine the way work gets done. The concept seems appealing, but will Facebook at Work succeed at redefining the way we work? |
