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• Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition - Chapter 2
  
  Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts
  Release Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010
  Quick ID: 100153
  “This book excerpt is from Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, authored by Lyssa Adkins, published by Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional, May 2010, ISBN 0321637704, Copyright 2010 Pearson Education Inc. For a full Table of Contents: www.informit.com/title/0321637704”
  
  
• Jumpstart Your Project Management Skills
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 MayJun
  Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010
  Quick ID: 1006031
  Your manager just dropped into your office and said, “We have a very important, new assignment with a limited budget and tight schedule. I am assigning you to be the project manager. Good luck.”Your manager turns and leaves your office. After your heart rate subsides, you start to think about your new assignment. How shall I proceed? What tools will I use? What are my deliverables? One of the most challenging roles in the Information Technology industry is that of Project Manager (PM). PMs are delegated a great deal of responsibility but with often little authority. In this article, you will learn valuable skills and tools that you can apply to become a good project manager and add value to your company.
  
  
• Nerd Dinner on Rails
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 MayJun
  Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010
  Quick ID: 1006071
  It is often said that ASP.NET MVC was inspired by Rails. What better way to test that assertion than by writing the Nerd Dinner ASP.NET MVC application in Rails? In this article, I’ll take you through the steps I used to get Nerd Dinner up and running in Rails. A few points to keep in mind:
  
  
• Chapter 11 - Inspect and Adapt
  
  Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts
  Release Date: Monday, March 08, 2010
  Quick ID: 100073
  “This chapter excerpt is from the book, Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum”, authored by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, January 26, 2010, ISBN 0321636406, Copyright 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. For a full Table of Contents, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0321636406
  
  
• S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JanFeb
  Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
  Quick ID: 1001061
  Derick outlines how to achieve the benefits of low coupling, high cohesion, and strong encapsulation. He also shows how the five S.O.L.I.D. design principles can get you there.Most professional software developers understand the academic definitions of coupling, cohesion, and encapsulation.However, many developers do not understand how to achieve the benefits of low coupling, high cohesion and strong encapsulation, as outlined in this article. Fortunately, others have created stepping stones that lead to these goals, resulting in software that is easier to read, easier to understand and easier to change. In this article series, I will define three of the primary object-oriented principles and show how to reach them through the five S.O.L.I.D. design principles.
  
  
• Post Mortem Web Project
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JanFeb
  Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
  Quick ID: 1001091
  First Premier Bankcard (www.firstpremier.com) is the 10th largest issuer of Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the United States.First Premier employs multiple thousands of people spread across the state of South Dakota. A major percentage of the employees at First Premier work in call-center operations helping people apply for credit cards.
  
  
• Introducing Advanced Code Contracts with the Entity Framework and Pex
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JanFeb
  Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
  Quick ID: 1001101
  Martin introduces Design by Contract and Code Contracts, and gives you a sneak preview of Pex—Microsoft’s new test-suite generator. Along the way, he will show you how to add contracts to ADO.NET entities and some interesting coding strategies, good practices, and pitfalls you may encounter while making a deal with your code.With Code Contracts, Microsoft delivers its own flavor of Design by Contract for the .NET Framework. But wait, what is this thing sometimes called Contract-First Development? How will it change the way you develop software and write your unit tests? And first and foremost, how do you use Code Contracts efficiently?In this article, I will introduce Design by Contract and Code Contracts, as well as give you a sneak preview of Pex-Microsoft’s new test-suite generator. Along the way, I will show you how to add contracts to ADO.NET entities and some interesting coding strategies, good practices, and pitfalls you may encounter while making a deal with your code.
  
  
• Introduction to Scrum
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun
  Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
  Quick ID: 0805051
  Scrum is an agile software development process to manage software projects. Scrum is based on three simple principles: visible progress, constant inspection, and adaptation. With Scrum, teams use an empirical approach to adapt to changing requirements and priorities. Teams using Scrum focus on delivering working software to their customers on a frequent basis.
  
  
• Managing an Agile Software Project
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 May/Jun
  Release Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
  Quick ID: 0805041
  Everything right or wrong with a software project is management’s fault.Either management staffed the right people or the wrong people. Management was absent or involved. Management is hard, and there are numerous factors that can cause success or failure of a project. In the best situation you have great people who do great work. A software manager can even succeed despite themselves if they happen to staff a top-notch team even though the managers, themselves, might not be very competent. The success that a top-notch team achieves is still the manager’s fault. Failure, however, is harder to blame on the team because a manager must be able to solve problems as they come along. This article will focus on tips and knowledge to use when managing an agile software project.
  
  
• It’s an Agile World
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Jan/Feb
  Release Date: Friday, December 28, 2007
  Quick ID: 0801011
  Jan/Feb 08 Editorial by Rod Paddock
  
  
• eXtreme .NET
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - May/Jun
  Release Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2005
  Quick ID: 0505101
  Learn how to use XP (eXtreme Programming) techniques to improve the way you deliver softwareIn my book, "eXtreme .NET," I introduce a team of developers who are learning how to improve their ability to deliver great software. In this article, you'll follow this team as they learn about a new tool to help them develop software solutions using the .NET Framework. The tool they are going to explore is called Cruise Control and it helps the team continuously integrate their code.