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How Metrics Distract Stakeholders on Agile Software Projects Metrics can be distractions to stakeholders from seeing true value in agile software projects. Stakeholders can gain more realistic insight by observing the intangibles—like accountability, transparency, and trust in teams—rather than just following the numbers on a software project dashboard. |
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What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development? Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis. |
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Making Telecommuting Work for Your Product Development Team Can you make telecommuting work for your organization? Of course you can. The question is this: Will it make your product development proceed faster, with more ease and less cost, and allow you the most flexibility? If not, you may want to reconsider having employees telecommute. |
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Will Microsoft’s Reorganization Achieve Its Objectives? Microsoft recently announced a massive reorganization to enable innovation at a greater efficiency. The move is being branded as the One Microsoft initiative toward the unification of their strategy. Anuj Magazine looks at the company's past and future organizational structure. |
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How Agile Can Deliver on a Fixed-Budget (Not Fixed-Price) Promise Development projects run into problems any time they attempt to stick to a fixed-price, fixed-scope, and fixed-completion contract. Learn why this fixed iron-triangle sets projects up for failure and what agile teams can do to solve the problem and make the customer and the developers happy. |
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Development and Marketing—Can't We All Just Get Along? When building software for sale, it may seem that software development managers and product marketing managers should get along great. One team builds the software; the other team finds people to buy it. Eric Bloom looks at the primary reason why these two teams sometimes don't get along. |
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To Become a Leader, Start Acting Like a Leader Today If you want to become a leader, you should start to act like a leader—no matter what level you’re at right now. To do that, strive to excel in your current role and seek out opportunities to contribute. Read on for more tips on becoming a leader—whether at the team level or as head of the company. |
