Review of 2009 for Software Development: Many Acquisitions and a Funeral
Published January 21st, 2010 Under News, Software Development | 2 Comments
Last year has certainly been busy for the software development tools industry. We have seen many companies merging together and also the funeral of one of the oldest brand in the software development industry. Read more
Scrum Planet Looking for Scrum Blogs
Published September 14th, 2009 Under Methods & Tools, News | Leave a Comment
Scrum Planet is a web site that aggregates for RSS feeds focused on Scrum and agile project management. If you know about a good blog feed that is missing from the current roster, I would be please to add it. Thanks for your cooperation.
State of Agile Development Survey
Published September 11th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
Time is running out to make sure your experiences implementing and scaling agile are part of this year’s survey results. Remember, this is not a vendor survey, it is a survey to gauge the overall state of agile adoption in the software development community.
Please take part in this survey and get the chance to win 1 of 3 participation prizes from Amazon.com totaling $1,250.00 and have the aggregated results emailed directly to you. As always, your individual responses are completely anonymous.
Learn more and take the 2009 survey here.
You can download the 2008 survey results here.
SpringSource Acquired by VMware for $420 Million
Published August 14th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
August 10, VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire SpringSource. VMware and SpringSource plan to deliver compelling new solutions that enable companies to more efficiently build, run and manage applications within both internal and external cloud architectures. Read more
A (Mostly) Agile Java Day at Jazoon
Published June 26th, 2009 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | 3 Comments
Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time after the publication of my summer issue to visit Wednesday the Jazoon, an important Java event located in Zurich. Besides the global morning keynote, the conference has five parallel tracks, so the first thing in the morning is to make your choice between 30 presentations. This is easier for me, because I am not a Java specialist and so I focused on talks with content that could reach outside the Java community. Read more
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