Why Teams Are Responsible for Successful Product DeliverySome believe that a large investment of time and money in requirements gathering and process oversight will lead to a more reliable or safer software product. But is that really the case? Steve Vaughn writes that in agile the team members are responsible for the successful delivery of their product.
Bug Bounty Hunters Can Earn Big RewardsToday’s bug bounty hunters can reap big rewards for tracking down software bugs. So far in 2013, Google has paid nearly $188,000 in bounties and prizes for Chrome and Chrome OS. Pamela Rentz looks at the success of Google's bug bounty program and the popularity of offering rewards for finding bugs.
Early May Software RoundupIn this roundup of interesting software tidbits, we learn that you might not want to take advantage of software bugs you find when playing video poker. Also, autocratic governments are using spy software to track activists and suspected dissidents.
Learn from the 2013 National Teacher of the YearRajini Padmanaban profiles the 2013 National Teacher of the Year and the core traits he instills in his students—traits that can also help us improve our performance in the workplace.
Selecting a Software Configuration Management ToolDeciding on a vendor for your CM tool can be fun or gut wrenching. The decision you make will affect how you control files, interact with other tools, and will touch every aspect of you daily work. Joe Townsend lists six questions you should ask before selecting a tool.
Avoid Non-Agile Thinking: Hacks, Egotism, and StagnancyNirav Assar shares some of the ways to avoid non-agile decorum, by pointing out some of the biggest crimes against agile that he spotted while reading Andy Hunt's Practices of an Agile Developer. How many of these examples have you seen on agile teams that you've worked with?
Desktop Apps Start to Emulate Their Mobile CounterpartsMobile app development may get the lion's share of news coverage, but desktop developers are doing their best to prove their products' relevancy. One magazine is trying something new—building a desktop app that's designed to resemble its mobile counterpart. How will readers respond?
CoderDojo—Teaching Kids How to CodeJames Whelton, a teen Irish developer, created CoderDojo—a movement to support and teach coding to children from nine to fifteen years of age. CoderDojo quickly spread its reach from Ireland to Los Angeles. Brendan Quinn looks at the appeal of this youth programming movement.
