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Fixing the Quick Fix

Demands on businesses these days tend to make speed a priority--often at the expense of other areas. When it comes to correcting a problem in your organization, you should make sure you are, in fact, fixing the problem and not just a symptom. In this article, Esther Derby takes a look at the issue of the quick fix and offers some tips on how to...Read On
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Managing by the Numbers
By John Fodeh

Metrics can play a vital role in software development and testing. We use metrics to track progress, assess situations, predict events, and more. However, measuring often creates "people issues," which, when ignored, become obstacles to success or may even result in the death of a metrics program. In this presentation outline, John Fodeh addresses some of the typical people issues and shows how cognitive science and social psychology can play important roles in the proper use of metrics.
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Achieving the goals of agile development can be tricky. Development teams must manage increasing application complexity, Business Analysts need to learn how to capture requirements in higher level user stories which are both more flexible and can be easily interpreted by test and development teams, and finally the QA organization needs to ensure they are prepared to test the multi-layered applications delivered by development and that their test plans are flexible enough to accommodate the changes occurring per iteration. Download this complimentary white paper from HP.



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