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• What's Happening at StickyMinds.com
• New Content Pointers
• Your Discussion Board Digest
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT STICKYMINDS.COM?
Column: Applying the Inverted Pyramid to Agile Development
Clarke Ching
Modern day reporters tend to write their articles using what is known as the "inverted pyramid" style. They start with the most important information in the first sentence, followed by the next most important, and so on. This format not only gives the reader the biggest bang for his buck as he reads, but it also gives both the reporters and their editors huge flexibility in their uncertain and fast-changing environments. In this week's column, Clarke Ching shows how modern software development techniques use the same idea to give customers the best bang for their buck--in equally uncertain environments.
Or check out the Column Archive to catch up on what you've missed since your last visit.
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NEW CONTENT POINTERS
New Articles, Columns, Templates:
Article: What Does Done Mean?
Robbie Mac Iver
How to determine if a developer is "done" with a particular piece of code is often not well defined. As result software development projects can incur significant rework of features previously thought to be completed, and the quality of the overall solution can be compromised in an effort to make amends. For Agile teams in particular, there must be a clear and consistent meaning of "done" and the team must be able to quickly demonstrate it. Here is one way to define and quickly validate what it means to be "done."
NEW BOOK REVIEWS
Book Title: FastSOA
By: Frank Cohen
Reviewed By: Dmitri Ilkaev
The book is an excellent guide to the current SOA technologies as well as their limitations. It starts with analysis of the performance and scalability issues in the current SOA world. Author Frank...
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