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Target's Website Snafu Suggests More Exploratory TestingTarget recently found itself in the news over a mislabeled product on its website that generated embarrassing results. The website snafu proves the importance of having an exploratory test team that manually tests in a production environment. | 
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Monkeys Teach Us What We Already Knew: Middle Management Is StressfulSitting around eating bananas all day doesn't sound too stressful, but middle management monkeys are feeling the same burn as those performing tasks in the confines of a traditional office. Putting out fires, appeasing upper management, and holding onto a job are taking their toll on everyone. | 
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A New Software Development Manifesto for Building the Right Things Author and software consultant Gojko Adzic recently gathered together a group of professionals to discuss software delivery and business outcomes, and to identify the core ideas that could be shared with delivery teams to help them focus on building the right things. |
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Why Agile Teams Should Avoid Setting Narrow Project GoalsAgile teams should change their mindsets and establish an area of focus instead of setting narrow project goals. This change can promote a team's self-direction, which generates the motivation to produce unforeseen outcomes and achieve business value. | 
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Performance Reviews: Why Everyone Hates Them and What You Can DoMany managers and their staff loathe doing performance reviews, which often are carried out more to appease HR. Still, most companies continue to use annual appraisals. So if you have to conduct them (or might someday), here are a few suggestions to make them worthwhile. | 
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Reconsidering User Stories User stories, one of the most common agile techniques, are used by delivery teams to support their iterative planning efforts and are typically used to represent items in a backlog. Until recently there has been a general agreement about the form that user stories should take. |
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Self-Organizing Teams and New York's Soda Size BanVenkatesh Krishnamurthy relates New York's unpopular soda size ban with the conflicts that arise from self-organizing teams. Michael Bloomberg (ScrumMaster) had good intentions to save lives by bringing this change; however, he didn’t get support from the citizens (self-organized team). | 
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What the Best Software Managers for Scrum Teams DoSteve Vaughn shares his experiences as a software manager for multiple Scrum teams. In Steve's eyes, the best software managers hire the right people for the job, give them assignments where they can be most successful, and create a work environment where teams produce high quality systems. | 
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