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		<title>Java Cloud Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cloud approach is gaining ground in organizations as the new standard for IT infrastructure. We mostly see it in its &#8220;public&#8221; version with offers like Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry or Windows Azure. There is however also the emergence of &#8220;private&#8221; clouds that are operated inside organizations. The Cloud Computing Development web site has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/java-cloud-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Muddy Software Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If the layered style is the most common targeted style [in software architecture], the big ball of mud style is perhaps the one most often actually achieved. It is characterized by the absence of any evident structure, or perhaps vestiges of now-eroded structure. Also typical is promiscuous sharing of information, sometimes to the extent that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/muddy-software-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Conferences January 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/software-development-conferences-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Linkopedia January 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is our selection of interesting knolwedge material on programming, software testing and project management: Web Site: Understanding JavaScript OOP Web Site: Cherry Pop &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/software-development-linkopedia-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>The Meaning of Agile Certification is Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On page 483 of their book &#8221; Practices for Scaling Lean &#38; Agile Development&#8220;, 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 &#8220;Do not believe that an appraisal, rating, or certification in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/the-meaning-of-agile-certification-is-value/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Conferences December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/software-development-conferences-december-2011/</link>
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		<title>Agile Culture, Scrum, User Experience and Software Architecture in the Winter 2011 issue of Methods &amp; Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Methods &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/agile-culture-scrum-user-experience-and-software-architecture-in-the-winter-2011-issue-of-methods-tools/</link>
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		<title>Specification by Example</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After &#8220;Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing&#8221; published in 2009, Gojko Adzic continues to develop the Specification by Example concept. Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. In this book, he presents the results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/specification-by-example/</link>
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		<title>Building the Right Product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the last decade, the software development community has strived to build software the “right” way, focusing on technical practices and ideas to ensure high-quality results. But building the product right and building the right product are two different things. We need to do both in order to succeed. To build the right product effectively, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/building-the-right-product/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Linkopedia December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web Site: The Twelve-factor Applications Web Site: Selenium Tutorial Blog: Please help Jenkins pay the project expense Blog: Create the Place Where You Long to Belong Article: The End of Projects: Moving Toward Evidence-Based Software Investment Article: NoSQL Databases and Node.js Article: Unit Testing in Java: A Sleeping Snail Article: Develop applications using a collaborative, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/software-development-linkopedia-december-2011/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Conferences November 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Tools software development magazine: XP Day Benelux, December 1-2 2011, Mechelen, Belgium SCALE, January 20-22 2012, Los Angeles, USA ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland Find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/software-development-conferences-november-2011/</link>
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		<title>Software Linkopedia November 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is our selection of interesting knolwedge material on programming, software testing and project management: Web site:  SymbolHound a search engine for programmers and coders Blog: More about distributed Scrum &#8211; one example Blog: Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty Blog: How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration? Article: Understanding the Concept of the Minimum Viable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/software-linkopedia-november-2011/</link>
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		<title>The True Face of the JavaZone Trolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian JavaZone conference is already known for its humorous video trailers, but you can also have some fun on their web site as you can see in the image below that appeared yesterday when a (short) server issue happened during my last visit. Looking at this information, I suspect that Java might be an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/humour/the-true-face-of-the-javazone-trolls/</link>
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		<title>Lean Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The book is divided in three parts. The first part provides an overview of Lean integration. The second part introduces the seven Lean integration principles and the last part discusses lean integration competency areas. This book provides valuable content to apply the lean principles to the software integration process with a lot of case studies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-integration/</link>
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		<title>Observations on Software Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading the book &#8220;Practices for Scaling Lean &#38; Agile Development&#8221; by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. This book is full of very interesting material that covers the full spectrum of the software development domain and is the &#8220;sequel&#8221; of &#8220;Scaling Lean &#38; Agile Development &#8211; Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/observations-on-software-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Software Development Conferences October 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Tools software development magazine: Open Agile, November 2 2011, Bucharest, Romania Android DevCon, November 6-9 2011, San Francisco, USA Better Software Conference East, November 6–11 2011, Orlando, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/software-development-conferences-october-2011/</link>
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		<title>Open Agile, November 2 2011, Bucharest, Romania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Methods &#038; Tools Magazine is proud to be a media sponsor of the Open Agile Romania. In early November, Jurgen Appelo, Methods &#038; Tools&#8217; author and writer of the book Management 3.0, David Hussman and Alexandru Bolboaca will speak at the third annual Romanian Agile &#038; Lean conference in Bucharest. The theme is &#8220;Build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/open-agile-november-2-2011-bucharest-romania/</link>
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		<title>Software Linkopedia October 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web site: The Handbook of Software Architecture Blog: Metrics for Agile Blog: Improving our interview process Blog: Pitfalls of the Stand-up Meeting Blog: Transforming to Collaborative Agile Teams Article: Moneyball for Software Engineering Article: Functional Testing with Arquillian Article: Tracking Software Projects from a Financial Perspective Article: Reflections on Virtual Teams Tool: scrumblr- simple open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/software-linkopedia-october-2011/</link>
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		<title>More than 2000 items in the Software Development Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Software Development Directory is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add a free link in this directory. Featured links are available for those who want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/more-than-2000-items-in-the-software-development-directory/</link>
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		<title>What is a Successful Software Project?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently somebody asked on a forum &#8220;when is Scrum not working?&#8221; This lead me to the question &#8220;when is a project successful?&#8221; Traditionally, you can measure the success of a project by checking the respect of the scope, schedule and budget at the delivery of the application. In this situation, the burden is more on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/what-is-a-successful-software-project/</link>
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