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US Citizenship and Immigration Services Adopting Agile The US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is the Department of Homeland Security agency meant to oversee lawful immigration, is aiming to automate the integration and delivery of its software projects with a new, paperless immigration system that makes use of agile practices. |
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What's in the September/October 2014 Better Software Magazine? In our latest issue of Better Software magazine, the feature articles focus on software licensing and ways to improve your team’s approach to process improvement. Creating software for a wide range of platforms is difficult enough, but enforcing software licensing also can be challenging. |
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Take a More Agile Approach to Problem SolvingYour managers want you to estimate features or projects months or even years in advance. But the work changes—or the code changes, or the people on the project change. What you thought might be a reasonable estimate four weeks ago looks wacko when you revisit it in six months. What can you do? | 
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Measuring the Business Value in Agile ProjectsVenkatesh Krishnamurthy looks at some key ways to measure the business value of your project's agile performance. With consideration to the Agile Manifesto, Krishnamurthy uncovers different approaches to getting the most out of your user stories and defining true value. | 
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AgileConnection Update: Transitions, Distributed Teams, and ManagersJohanna Rothman, technical editor of AgileConnection, highlights some of the content that's being published on the site, including articles about using certain agile practices on an otherwise traditional project, the challenges of distributed teams, and another myth for misguided managers. |
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I Don’t Sprint, I Stroll: A Non-Techie’s Journey to Product OwnershipWhat happens when the director of marketing becomes a product owner for some of her company's web properties? She gets a crash course on the real meaning of agile development and her role in it all—and a newfound respect for the people who work in software engineering every day. | 
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Agile Teams Can Learn a Lot from the World CupIt might not seem apparent at first, but there are more than a handful of similarities between agile teams and those football/soccer teams representing their respective countries in the World Cup. How teams are built, their objectives, and on-the-fly changes are all facets that tie both together. |
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Turning to the Turing Test for AgileWhat if there were some kind of a Turing Test for agile teams? A test that could separate those who are just mechanically following the process and those who are emoting the agile essence? This article explores that possibility. | 
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