What's New  CM Crossroads - May 10 2006
A digest of new resources at www.cmcrossroads.com
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- NEW: Ask Mr. Make - Build Management Resource Center
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Title: Pulse Automated Build Server
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1960
Pulse is an automated build (or continuous integration)
server. Pulse has been designed to deliver the adaptability
of a home grown solution without the engineering cost.
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Title: Montessori Teacher Training
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1943
CERDS(Centre for Educational Research and Developmental
Studies) offers Montessori Teacher Training using Montessori
tools,methods and principles.
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Title: A professional web development, web programming
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1944
We are professional website designers and web developers who
offer web site development, web page development and other
web based software's at affordable prices.
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Title: Agile SCM - Dynamically Balancing Individual -vs-
Collective Ownership
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1945
by Robert Cowham, Brad Appleton and Steve Berczuk
One of the commonly touted programming practices of several
agile methods is something called collective code ownership,
where anyone on the team can make any authorized functional
change or design quality improvement (e.g., a
"refactoring") to any file within the scope of
their task. The Agile method known as Feature-Driven
Development (FDD), featured in another article this month,
is one of the few agile methods that uses the more
restrictive model of individual code ownership to restrict
changes to a class/module to be made by its assigned
"owner."
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Title: Feature-Driven Development - an Agile Alternative to
Extreme Programming
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1946
by Brad Appleton
Many people today judge all of "Agile
development" based on what they know about Extreme
Programming (XP), quite possibly because that is all or most
of what they've heard about agile development. I wish all
of those folks (especially agile skeptics) would take a
close look at Feature-Driven Development (FDD) if for no
other reason than because it is an example of an agile
method that is very different from XP. FDD is quite agile
while still employing of many of the traditional practices
that agile skeptics are probably more accustomed to seeing.
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Title: Agility and Quality
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1947
by Alan S. Koch
What is "Quality"? There are many competing
definitions, mainly because the one that makes the most
sense, "Quality is in the eye of the beholder,"
is hard to make workable in a real business situation. Some
would say it is impossible to use. But the Agile methods beg
to differ.The Agile methods take just such an approach to
quality by letting the customer mould the quality of the
product that is being built. They acknowledge that different
people might see things in different ways, so the one party
to the project whose opinion counts most (the ultimate
customer) is the one to whom the Agile methods look.
What constitutes high quality on this project? Don't ask
me! Ask your customer!
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Title: Managing Dispersed Development Teams for Productivity
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1948
by Rich Bianchi
The traditional approach to managing productivity is that
employees punch a clock – in at 8, out at 5 – and employers
must assume work is being done during the intervening hours.
However, the current reality for many, if not most,
businesses, is that the traditional approach no longer
works. It has become unclear whether or not work is being
accomplished regardless of hours logged at the office. With
the increase in outsourced and offshore teams, many
developers are scattered across different states or even
different continents and throughout a variety of time zones.
As a result, it’s not possible for a manager to ‘swing by’
a developer’s cube to get a status update on a project or
even just to do a quick check that a team member is present
and productive.
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Title: Agile – It’s Not the Wild West
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1949
by Mario Moreira
Agile methods for software development are one of the
hottest movements in the methodology field. Agile methods
provide a means of adapting quickly for teams facing
unpredictable or rapidly changing requirements. Agile
introduces a structured approach to software development
(more structured than most "bandwagon"
enthusiasts realize). This structure ensures that the
customer gets early and periodic views of their solution for
continuous feedback, more assurance that they get a solution
that solves their business needs, and a working solution in
typically a shorter timeframe. Unfortunately, some folks
think Agile is the "wild west" of methodologies
and think it provides them license to throw-out all process
and documentation. Those who think this are sadly mistaken
and give Agile a black eye.
http://www.
cmcrossroads.com/article/64757
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Title: CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Agile Configuration
Management
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1950
by Joe Farah
What is agile CM? If you think it's doing the minimal
amount of CM, think again. Instead, it's minimizing and
streamlining the work to do all of the CM tasks that are
necessary. It adapts to changing CM requirements fairly
easily. Agile CM doesn't just happen - it's a combination
of good CM process, good CM tools, and CM automation. If you
fall short on any of these, your CM process will not be very
agile.
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Title: Product Review - mValent Integrity 3.0.3 Facilitates
the Management of J2EE Application Infrastructu
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1951
by Michael Sayko
Raising the Bar
IT organizations are looking for new levels of productivity.
In an era of relative talent shortages,
the ability to seize business opportunities depends on
making dramatic increases in productivity.
At the same time, the government has raised the bar
substantially with governance mandates such as
Sarbanes-Oxley. Add to this globalization, outsourcing and
distributed work forces that have the
effect making even smaller companies manage teams over
geographic and time zones. However, the
coming whammy is the dramatic loss of talent looming up as
baby-boomers retire.
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Title: Tackling Offshore Agile Development
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1952
by Liz Barnett
As an analyst, I have spoken with hundreds of software
developers and managers struggling to improve their delivery
capabilities. Many are turning to Agile processes as a means
to deliver high quality solutions and at the same time
improve time to benefits. And, at the same time, these teams
need to work with ever-shrinking budgets. Of all the
questions they asked about Agile development in 2005, the
most common - and the toughest - was:
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Title: The Agile Manager: An Agile Approach To Managing
Distributed Development
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1953
by Ross Pettit
Traditional approaches to distributed development impair
flexibility: they don't expose what's actually happening
on the ground in different locations, they lack common and
effective communication channels, and they substitute
"hope" for "managed process" when
reconciling work. Distributed development should be as
responsive to change as co-located teams.
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Title: Changing Times: Stretched to the Limit
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1954
by Kevin Parker
When serendipity taps you on the shoulder I've found it
best not to ignore the intrusion. I recently got back from
an intense trip to India, speaking at several seminars and
to a number of our leading customers. On my return I picked
up "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman and
this book provided me with a deeper perspective on what I
had just learned, face-to-face, with the same groups of
people I had just met in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. And
here we are in the second edition of Agile Journal talking
about Offshore Agile Development.
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Title: Achieving Agility in Globally Distributed Software
Development
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1955
by Adam Finden
In today's business climate there exists an ever-increasing
demand to achieve more from less. More return from less
investment, faster time to market from shrinking resources,
higher quality from collapsing timelines. The impact of
these pressures on the software development industry has
meant that organizations have had to look for new avenues
such as offshore development to reduce costs yet still
satisfy these increasing demands. Simply incorporating an
offshore development strategy to realize lower costs is not
a solution.
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Title: Agile at Scale: 7+7 Practices for Enterprise Agility
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1956
by Dean Leffingwell
Part II of II - Seven Additional Practices For Enterprise
Agility
In part I of this Article, we noted that the benefits of
agile software methods, including faster time to market,
better responsiveness to changing customer needs and higher
quality are undeniable to those who have mastered these
practices. However, these practices have been developed and
refined in circumstances characterized by small, co-located
teams with ready access to a customer. Can enterprises
building applications that require hundreds of distributed
team members benefit from these practices, or are they
forever doomed to large, late, stage-gate and waterfall-like
results?
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Title: Outsourcing Experience Report – LogicLibrary and EPAM
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1957
by Brent Carlson
LogicLibrary, provider of Logidex, has had an ongoing
relationship with EPAM Systems, the largest Eastern European
technology outsourcing vendor, for over three years to
develop its Logidex technology. This experience report
discusses the approaches and tools used by LogicLibrary and
EPAM to ensure effective communication and coordination
between LogicLibrary's Rochester, MN-based development team
and EPAM's Minsk, Belarus-based development team.
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Title: CASE STUDY: Source Medical
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1958
by Liz Barnett
Birmingham, AL-based Source Medical is a leading and
innovative provider of outpatient information management
solutions. Source Medical provides registration, scheduling
and clinical documentation to billing, collections and
revenue cycle management to more than 3,300 clients -- over
20,000 healthcare providers as users. A quickly growing
customer base coupled with the need to continually respond
to regulatory changes drove the organization to rethink its
development processes.
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Title: FEATURED BOOK: Collaboration Explained: Facilitation
Skills for Software Project Leaders
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1959
by Brad Appleton
In this book by Jean Tabaka, numerous Agile methods and
principles emphasize the value of collaboration and
self-organization. Most books on the subject of Agile
development discuss principles and practices related to
planning and development practices. Yet few Agile books
delve deeply into the How To's of collaboration,
facilitation and project leadership. This is one of the few
books that does exactly this: it takes the essential skills,
methods, and proven practices of successful team leaders and
group facilitators, and explains them in detail while also
applying them directly to the context of agile software
development.
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Title: Generic Configuration Management
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1965
"Generic Configuration Management" was written
for industrial managers and others who know very little
about CM but still have to deal with it. It was written by
an experienced Configuration Manager, fully retired and
obligated to no one. It is short, simple, candid,
unorthodox, and brief. I hope that it's helpful.
It's available at no cost on the Internet at http://www.genericcm.com/
If it's useful, please tell others. If not, please tell me.
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Title: Helpdesk Software, IT Help Desk Software Solutions
for Call Centre Tracking & Monitoring Services
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1966
Features helpdesk software & IT help desk software
solutions to improve the productivity and effectiveness of
the IT help desk and Customer Service Department. We also
provide helpdesk software for Call Centre Tracking &
Monitoring in UK.
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Title: Nostra Information Technology
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1967
-Serena PVCS Software – Change & Configuration
Management tools, (Distributor).
-Data Direct Technologies – Data Base Connectivity drivers,
(Distributor).
-Migrationware, Micro Focus – Cobol Programming and
migrating tools, (Channel Partner).
-Imediat Display Systems, (Channel Partner).
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Title: The Growing Influence Of Open Source Projects
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1970
by Liz Barnett
Two years ago, I began writing about the impact that open
source development tools, components, processes and
organizational models are having on corporate IT shops. I
worked with a range of development managers that shared a
very similar point of view: instead of dismissing the
so-called renegade open source projects, the managers
emulated these projects' activities and hoped to mimic
their success. This trend is only growing and I am intrigued
by the ways in which IT shops are looking to the open source
community for leadership.
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Title: The Agile Manager: The Economic Impact of Open Source
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1971
by Ross Pettit
For many years, pundits have anticipated seismic change from
open source. Beyond the high-profile changes, the effects of
open source can be seen everywhere in software development
today. While still an emergent phenomenon, there are cost,
revenue and intangible benefits for any company that becomes
an active consumer and contributor to the open source
community now.
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Title: Tools and Technology: Open Source Tools for the Agile
Developer
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1972
by Kirk Knoernschild
A defining characteristic of agile development is to keep
moving forward, recognizing working code as the primary
measure of valued software. Undoubtedly, there is no way to
judge a software system until you have a system to judge.
Yet, experienced developers recognize that requirements
frequently change and traditional methods have achieved very
little success in stabilizing requirements early in the
lifecycle. Instinctively, we may feel change impedes
progress, but agile developers embrace an attitude where
change is viewed as an opportunity to improve the system. A
variety of open source software tools can enable important
agile practices, allowing you to keep moving forward so long
as you are willing to embrace change.
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Title: Intellectual Property Management Issues for
Development
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1973
by Greg Coticchia
To maximize intellectual property (IP) value and mitigate
risk while operating in an open source application
development environment, enterprises need to understand the
distinction between real and perceived risks and values by
utilizing processes, governance and tools. This is
particularly important when involving an outsourcing
partner. A lack of intellectual property capture and
protection makes it harder for the outsourcing company to
move from one outsource vendor to another. As a software
development "value chain" evolves over time,
with changes in the business and technology environments,
the value of leveraging open source software may grow or
decrease in value. So it makes sense to understand and
review open source arrangements. In this scenario, if the
intellectual properties associated with managing and
producing the product are no longer available, significant
flexibility will be lost.
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Title: Tools and Technology: Open Source Tools for the Agile
Developer
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1974
by Kirk Knoernschild
A defining characteristic of agile development is to keep
moving forward, recognizing working code as the primary
measure of valued software. Undoubtedly, there is no way to
judge a software system until you have a system to judge.
Yet, experienced developers recognize that requirements
frequently change and traditional methods have achieved very
little success in stabilizing requirements early in the
lifecycle. Instinctively, we may feel change impedes
progress, but agile developers embrace an attitude where
change is viewed as an opportunity to improve the system. A
variety of open source software tools can enable important
agile practices, allowing you to keep moving forward so long
as you are willing to embrace change.
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Title: Supercharge Your Application Development Open Source
Strategy with an Architecture-centric Approach
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1975
by Jeff Hodson
Today's software developer, like never before, is blessed
with a plethora of sophisticated open source tools and
technologies to aid his craft in producing market-worthy
applications. Leveraging these resources together with the
developer's business domain knowledge and agile best
practices can quickly yield some truly amazing results To
sustain these successes, an application developer must apply
an architectural-centric approach in order to realize
longevity, flexibility and independence in his application.
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Title: CASE STUDY: VA Software
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1976
by Chary Aasuri
Agile development methodologies aren't one-size-fits-all.
Independent software vendors (ISVs) have unique
needs-external customers, aggressive release dates and
competitive pressures-that require tailoring software
development methodologies that work well in corporate IT
settings. Faced with a major new project and bogged down by
a big design up-front process, VA Software adapted Extreme
Programming (XP) to help build the latest versions of
SourceForge® Enterprise Edition (SFEE).
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Title: FEATURED BOOK: Practical Development Environments -
by Matthew B. Doar
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1977
reviewed by Brad Appleton
Okay - so you're "doing the ‘Agile' thing"
with your software development. How about your development
environment? Are all the tools in your development
environment truly practical?
Does your environment effectively leverage Open Source
efforts and Open Source-friendly offerings and vendors?
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