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Blog: Supporting Fast-Moving Business Requirements Using Approval Branching
Blog: Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary
Blog: Real-time QA: staying confident with code
Blog: Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming
Article: The Estimation Net
Article: State of Mobile Testing 2013
Article: Functional-Style Programming in C++
Article: Managing Virtual Software Development Projects
Article: Does Scrum Eliminate Project Risk?
Tools: Metrics – a Java library giving you insight into production code
Tools: Lumbar – a modular JavaScript build tool
Video: So You Are Automated… Now Let’s Make it Fast!
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“[Deliverables] is the least important level of an impact map. Don’t try to make it complete from the start. Refine it iteratively as you deliver. Treat deliverables as options, don’t take it for granted that everything listed here will actually be delivered. Don’t go into a lot of details early on, there will be time for that later.”

Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Blog: Back to the future: Product Backlog Templates!
Blog: Why I Migrated Away From MongoDB
Blog: Rolling Out TSP Organizational Performance Improvement: A Case Study
Blog: Software Architecture cheat sheet
Article: Influencing the Adoption of Software Engineering Methods Using Social Software (PDF)
Article: Modern Mocking Tools and Black Magic
Article: Working with Component Teams: How to Navigate the Complexity
Article: Increasing Team Productivity (PDF)
Video: People: the Missing Ingredient in Software Development
Tools: Ivoire, a simple BDD testing framework for Python
Tools: Anemometer, a MySQL …

From the extensive format of UML use cases to the minimal guidance of the Agile user stories, there have been many attempts to formalize the expression of software requirements. However, the free text is still the form that is used by a majority of software development organizations.

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* The Most Popular Collaborative Models
* Automated Testing of ASP.NET MVC Applications
* The Risk-Driven Model of Software Architecture
* MVP Foundations for Your GWT Application
* TestNG – Software Testing for Java
* SBT Scala Build Tool
* CUBRID – Open Source RDBMS Highly Optimized for the Web
* Guaraná – Enterprise Application DSL and SDK
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