Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on user interface and project management practices:
* Dialogue Sheets for Scrum Retrospectives – Helping Scrum Improvement
* Using Models and Standards – Tools for Software Processes
* The Psychology of UX – Understand your Users
* HTML5 for Rich Web Enterprise Applications – What Does HTML5 Brings to the Web?
* Gradle – a revolutionary Groovy based build tool
* Saros – an Eclipse plug-in for …

Web Site: Introduction to Databases – Stanford University Free Online Course
Blog: The 10 Minute Test Plan
Blog: A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective
Blog: Appraisals and Agile Don’t Play Nicely
Article: Rational Unified Best Practices: A Primer for the Project Manager
Article: Defining Software Quality and Economic Value
Article: Tools and Techniques for .NET Code Profiling
Article: Scenarios for Load Testing
Tool: Sureassert UC – integrated Java unit testing solution for Eclipse
Tool: NDBGen – C# LINQ-to-SQL models and SQL installation script generator

Video: JUnit Tutorial
Video: Cloud Computing Economics
Video: Scrum Sprint Showcase
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Blog: A simulation to show the importance of backlog prioritization
Blog: Measuring Code
Blog: Working with the testing debt – part 3
Article: Are You a Whole Team?
Article: Agile Project Dashboards
Article: Power and Influence Charting: The Google Way
Tool: Reqline Requirement Management Tool
Tool: ckwnc – creating UML sequence diagrams online
Video: How to Decrease the Pain in Building Distributed Systems
Video: Kanban for Government Projects
Video: Introduction to Graph Databases
Job: Agile Software Tester, Confidential, Redmond, WA
Job: Software Test Engineer (SDET), Microsoft , Redmond, WA
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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:
Agile 2011, August 7-13 2011, Salt Lake City, USA
Scrum Day 2011, September 27-28 2011, Darmstadt, Germany
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Drawing from his own experience as developer and CTO in the game development industry, Keith Clinton has written a book that provides both an overall vision of the Agile and Scrum approaches combined with a detailed practice of these principles in the specific context of game software development. It gives therefore also a good introduction to the software practices of the gaming industry.
Read the complete review of Agile Game Development with Scrum
Reference: Agile Game Development with Scrum, Clinton Keith, Addison-Wesley, 340 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-61852-8
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