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What Makes for a Healthy Software Team?Steve Berczuk explains that there is more to maintaining the health of a software team than providing the right technologies and processes. You need to attend to the factors that can transform a group of people into a real team. | 
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How Embracing Feedback Helps You Avoid the VacuumWhatever negative experiences you've had with receiving, or even providing feedback in the past—put them behind you. Feedback is crucial to personal and professional development—as long as the mentor and mentee know their roles and responsibilities in the process. | 
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Agile Is Not for Everyone (and That's OK)Agile is not just a lifecycle, but also a huge cultural shift for the entire organization. In this article, Johanna Rothman details some of the issues that prevent teams from transitioning to agile and discusses what a team's options are if it decides agile is not the way to go. | 
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Can Your Agile Team Be Trusted?Without taking away from the importance of trust between team members, maybe it's time agile developers look outside the team and make sure clients find them to be as trustworthy as they find themselves. There will always be skeptics, but building trust will eliminate many of them. | 
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What Studying Release Notes Reveals about Your SCM and ALM Tools Studying release notes tells you a great deal about your software configuration management (SCM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) environment. They will also help you understand why SCM and ALM are so important. ALM tools provide the capability to get release notes automatically. |
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Apple’s New iOS 7 Borrows Heavily from Other Systems and AppsIf imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, several mobile operating systems and third-party apps should’ve been feeling pretty flattered after Apple revealed the forthcoming iOS 7 at its WWDC keynote. Much of iOS 7’s look, features, and user interface is giving people déjà vu. | 
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How to Complain Professionally at Your Workplace There are right and wrong ways to go about complaining at work. While the squeaky wheels may get the grease, people viewed as complainers limit their career advancement opportunities. To complain professionally, Naomi Karten says you should be calm, professional, and helpful. Read on for more tips. |
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Apple Unveils iOS 7, New Design, and Mobile Apps at 2013 WWDC KeynoteApple had a lot of news to spill at the keynote for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference—so much, in fact, that we split it into two articles. Here you'll discover announcements about the new look and functions for Apple's mobile devices, along with the features of the much-anticipated iOS 7. |
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