Software Development Conferences November 2011
Published November 23rd, 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:
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
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Software Linkopedia November 2011
Published November 16th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
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 – one example
Blog: Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty
Blog: How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration?
Article: Understanding the Concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Article: Design Peer Reviews the ATAM Style
Article: Building the Right Scope
Article: MongoDB vs. RDBMS Schema Design
Tools: Robolectric – Test-Drive Your Android Code
Tool: Spinach – a BDD framework that features encapsulation and modularity
Video: Secrets of World Class Software Organizations
Video: Software Testing is Dead
Video: Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-to
Video: Metrics for Better Software Teams
Video: Java Security Trends
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 True Face of the JavaZone Trolls
Published November 8th, 2011 Under Humour | 2 Comments
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 easier language than I thought…
Lean Integration
Published November 7th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
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, but if you are interested in the Lean aspect of software development, I would rather recommend the book “Leading Lean Software Development – Results are not the Point” by Mary and Tom Poppendieck.
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Reference: “Lean Integration”, John G. Schmid & David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 408 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71231-8
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Observations on Software Architecture
Published October 31st, 2011 Under Quotes | Leave a Comment
I am currently reading the book “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development” 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 “sequel” of “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. Software architecture and design is one of the topics discussed in the books and I want to share with you some of the authors’ thoughts, starting with five principles that they propose on software architecture and design: Read more
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