3 Books You Should Read When You Want to Go Agile

If you haven’t switched to an agile approach to software development yet, you probably should. But be warned. Agile is not about daily stand ups in the morning. It also isn’t about renaming your “work break down structure” into “backlog”. Going agile requires changes deep in the internals of your team and/or in your company, [...]

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Continuous Democracy

Agile Methods teach us that if something doesn’t work when we do it only once in a project, we should consider doing it all the time. This seems to work for testing, estimating, releasing, integrating and many more. So, why exactly should this approach be limited to software development? I hereby present the successor of [...]

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The Question isn’t what is Going on at Oracle or SUN

Since SUN was bought by Oracle, many people are speculating what is going on at Oracle, and how this will affect the future of Java. When you are relying heavily on java for your daily work, it is obviously extremely interesting, what is going to happen with java. At least I don’t want to become [...]

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