Software Development Conferences January 2012
Published January 26th, 2012 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:
Scandinavian Agile Conference, March 8 2012, Helsinki, Finland
EclipseCon 2012 North America, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA
Agile ALM Connect, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA
Scandinavian Developer Conference, 16-17 April, Gothenburg, Sweden
ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Android DevCon III, May 14-17 2012, San Francisco, USA
Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA
Software Systems Best Practices Conference, June 18-21 2012, Anaheim, USA
JAZOON’12, June 26-28 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
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Software Development Linkopedia January 2012
Published January 18th, 2012 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Here is our selection of interesting knolwedge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Web Site: Understanding JavaScript OOP
Web Site: Cherry Pop – Development Diary
Web Site: Mikado Method
Blog: Diversity Imbalance
Blog: Kicking ass together: How to improve coding skills as a group
Blog: Tips for Testing Database Code
Article: Creating Your First Spring Web MVC Application
Article: Who Cooked My Goose?
Tool: Ebselen – A mavenised Selenium test framework
Tool: Phake – PHP Mocking Framework
Video: Beheading the Software Beast
Video: Offshore Outsourcing with Scrum
Video: Agile UML Modeling
Video: Big Design Up Front is Dead
Video: Code Contracts in .NET 4
Find more interesting knowledge and content on the software development resources directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.
The Meaning of Agile Certification is Money
Published January 9th, 2012 Under Software Development | 1 Comment
On page 483 of their book ” Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development“, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde discuss about the quality of code and certification, mainly in within the CMMI context. They refute the link between good code production and certification and wrote “Do not believe that an appraisal, rating, or certification in any process improvement model – including Scrum, agile methods and ISO certification – means much of anything, other than the ability to somehow pass an appraisal at least once.”
Although I usually agree with them, I would disagree on this point. Certification has its meaning. And this meaning is money. Certification has become an important business and this is why you have so many “independent” professional associations that now provide some type of certification. In the Agile project management world, you can be
* a certified ScrumMaster from the Scrum Alliance
* a Professional ScrumMaster from Scrum.org
* a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner from the Project Management Institute (PMI)
In addition, you can now become a certified Agile tester or Product Owner. I am myself planning to create a Certified Agile Blogger status. Read more
Software Development Conferences December 2011
Published December 27th, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:
SCALE, January 20-22 2012, Los Angeles, USA
EclipseCon 2012 North America, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA
Agile ALM Connect, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA
ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA
JAZOON’12, June 26-28 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
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Agile Culture, Scrum, User Experience and Software Architecture in the Winter 2011 issue of Methods & Tools
Published December 21st, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on agile project management, software architecture and user experience. In addition, four open source software development tools are presented, two for software testing and two for project management. Winter 2011 issue content:
* How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship
* How Software Architecture Learns
* Understanding of Burndown Chart
* The Psychology of UX – Part 2
* Cucumber: Behavior Driven Development in Ruby
* Sureassert Exemplars: Java Unit Testing Without Unit Tests
* ChiliProject: Modular Open Source Web-based Project Management
* Scrum-it: Virtual Open Source Scrum Board Application
70 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter11
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