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White Papers
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6 Tips for Quickening Software Releases
This article discusses 6 Tips for Quickening Software Releases.
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Agile Scrum - The 30 Day Sprint and The Daily Scrum Meeting
This newsletter is one in a series of newsletters that will discuss the Agile Scrum process and will end with variants of Scrum that can be used to aid in improving your software releases.
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Enabling Team Collaboration with Discussion Forums
Teams keen on improving team communication and collaboration can utilize discussion forums to ensure all team members are communicated with.
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Exploring Agile Development
When choosing your development methodology, the latest buzzword is "Agile Development." This newsletter explores the advantages and disadvantages of Waterfall vs. Agile.
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Maximizing Test Case Efficiency
This article discusses Maximizing Test Case Efficiency, describing how quality assurance teams can improve quality by efficiently creating test cases.
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Case Studies
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Creative Artists Agency Case Study
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) manages custom application development in house but outsources all coding. This makes their software development process extremely communication intensive.
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Defect Tracker Case Study - iUniverse
iUniverse, one of the largest book publishing companies in the United States, needed a way to track software improvements based on feedback from authors and clients using the software.
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Defect Tracker Case Study - Kenexa
With offices located the US, UK and India, Kenexa needed a way to track defects for each of their software development projects.
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Defect Tracker Case Study - Proxima Technology
With offices located in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Proxima Technology needed a way to improve the quality of their software releases. The goal was to improve customer satisfaction by providing high quality releases of their software.
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Defect Tracker Case Study - Travelex
Travelex is the world’s largest non-bank corporate international payments business and the world’s oldest and second largest issuer of travellers cheques, under both the Visa and MasterCard brands. Travelex is the leading provider of outsourced travel money to banks, financial institutions and major travel agency chains.
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Product Literature
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Objectively Determining Percentage Complete
Do your programmers go from 0% to 80% complete on their coding tasks, then stay at 80% for weeks or months? Do your testers rate themselves 75% done on test case creation, but stay at that same percentage completion for extended periods of time?
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News Releases
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Benefits of Knowledge Sharing via a Knowledge Base
Ever feel like you are solving the same issue over and over? Do your clients call you with similar issues repeatedly? Do you wish you could share your knowledge with team members so that everyone has the same understanding and are communicating the same message when asked about specific issues?
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Technology Briefs
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Agile Scrum - Reporting and Metrics
Describes reports and metrics used to manage Agile projects
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Automating Your Regression Test Cases
This article discusses best practices for automating regresssion test cases.
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Managing Geographically Dispersed Software Teams
Many software development teams are physically spread out over the globe. As projects begin, the project management team may reside in one location while developers may reside in offices located around the country.
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Pragmatic Agile Development - PAD Best Practices
This article discusses the Pragmatic Agile Development methodology, which is a blended software development process that combines the strength of Waterfall and Agile Development for software development.
The article also has links to valuable templates that allow you to get started using these best practice techniques. This is a practical resource for project managers, software developers, and quality assurance teams.
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Pragmatic Agile Development - The PAD Roadmap
This article discusses the Pragmatic Agile Development methodology, which is a blended software development process that combines the strength of Waterfall and Agile Development for software development.
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Articles
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Agile Scrum - Tailoring Scrum to Your Needs
6 Tips for improving Scrum
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Agile Scrum Product Owners
Scrum is an Agile process that can be used to manage and control complex software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Scrum has been used from simple projects to changing the way entire enterprises do their business.
First published in 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey has helped millions establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article discusses the seven habits, framing the habits for highly effective Agile Scrum product owners.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Developers
Published in 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey has helped millions establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article discusses the 7 habits, framing the habits for highly effective developers.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Project Managers
This article discusses the 7 habits, framing the habits for highly effective project managers.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Scrum Masters
Published in 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey has helped millions establish great habits for achieving true interdependent effectiveness in their life and their jobs. This article discusses the 7 habits, framing the habits for highly effective scrum masters.
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