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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

Here’s your CIO holiday season shopping list for your IT and business colleagues, as well as your loved ones (and even yourself): For the Head of App Dev: A methodology that’s designed for the work App Dev actually does, which isn’t developing applications. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development.

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A CIO’s gift guide for IT and business colleagues

CIO

Here’s your CIO holiday season shopping list for your IT and business colleagues, as well as your loved ones (and even yourself): For the Head of App Dev: A methodology that’s designed for the work App Dev actually does, which isn’t developing applications. The usual candidates are Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Development.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Improvement (introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Second Edition cover. Improvement.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software developers are interchangeable. 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. 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

Learning what makes software development teams hum (1:40). Speaker 1: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high-performing software teams. Ron: Most people on software development teams have a sense of whether their team is humming or not.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”.

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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. Software development is not linear and not deterministic. Show Notes.