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Mobile Device Technology and Wearables Advance Health CareAdvancements in the medical field are being made faster than ever, as doctors and patients both begin to embrace mobile technology. From sending data electronically to providing real-time updates on heart rates and blood pressure, the goal is more than treatment—it's prevention. | 
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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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Can Capability Maturity Model Integration Coexist with Agile? Joe Townsend explores whether or not Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) can coexist with agile. Remember that the Agile Manifesto specifically addresses processes, and the CMMi is, without a doubt, centered on process and documentation. |
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User Story Mapping—Goal-Driven Backlog DevelopmentWhen product managers plan what product releases will include, the goal is to deliver value for the users. Every release of a product should make it better than the previous release. User story mapping is a technique for assuring that each release or iteration makes the product tangibly better. | 
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Measuring Development Time: Not the Best Way to Spend Your TimeManagers and project managers are often obsessed with measuring the time it takes to do a task. Time is useful to consider, but measuring time doesn’t always give us the information we really want or need. It's true that work takes time, but it's more valuable to measure results and value delivered. | 
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There's No Such Thing as a Bad IdeaIn the view of some, the issue isn’t whether ideas are impractical, irrational, harmful, potentially devastating, or just plain stupid. It’s whether those ideas should be cast aside as soon as they’re voiced. And when you look at it that way, there’s a case to be made for bad ideas. | 
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Kick-Starting Your Career—Startups or Established Players?As a graduate fresh out of college, the tough call for most in information technology is where to get our careers started—with a startup or an established player? Rajini Padmanaban looks at both options and how to decide which is the best option for you. | 
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Michelle Obama Hacked!Despite a recent White House executive order designed to beef up cyber security, First Lady Michelle Obama has fallen victim to doxing, a technique for collecting from the Internet personal information that then can be used to access more sensitive, security-critical information. | 
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