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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development. Welcome to the holiday season. But that’s okay.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

No, App Dev is more often responsible for configuring and integrating COTS (on-premises-installed commercial off-the-shelf software) and SaaS (cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf software) solutions. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development. Welcome to the holiday season. But that’s okay.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. It makes business sense to hire cheap programmers and put in place a standard process. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high-performing software teams. Transcript.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

It’s easy because, in most cases, they can start with one of the many off-the-shelf Agile methods, like the one in this book. Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Your feedback is appreciated! How to Be Agile. It’s action that matters.

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The One Constant with Don Gray

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Marcus: Welcome to the show, programming leadership. DonaldEGray.com. HSDinstitute.org. Transcript.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. It’s a well-loved classic that’s still talked about today. and now it’s time for an update. Edited Transcript. Introduction. Book Excerpt.

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