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Helpful Metaphors for Software TestingMetaphors are a wonderful way to describe something to your audience that they would not likely understand without them. Explaining testing to non-testers and testing concepts to experienced testers can be significantly easier when using good metaphors. | 
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How to Wake Up EarlierEven if you’re superefficient in your work, there aren’t enough hours in the day. One alternative: Getting up earlier. Not a chance, you say? Actually, one of the things that might make it feasible to get up earlier is to get a better night’s sleep. | 
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How to Bring Requirements to Life A key skill of the business analyst is to elicit and analyze requirements and to help stakeholders consider a range of possible solutions. Because abstract and logical requirements are extremely hard to digest, Adrian Reed offers concrete ideas on how you can bring requirements to life. |
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Are You Experiencing Product Manager Insomnia? What should be keeping you awake is what keeps your customers awake. Remember to be market-driven and to focus on the problems that your customers value—and are willing to pay to solve. |
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Clean Language in Business AnalysisClean Language originated within the discipline of therapy and focuses on understanding other people’s personal metaphors. It can help business analysts to form better questions and prevent inadvertently leading or pre-supposing a solution. |
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How to Say "No" When Asked for HelpCollaboration among team members is what makes agile software development both effective and fun. Being part of a team means not only helping others so that the team makes progress but also asking for help when you need it so that you don’t block the team for too long. | 
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The Right Way to Split User StoriesOne of the key techniques in the mechanics of agile software development is the splitting of epics into stories. Scott Sehlhorst highlights examples of ways to split user stories and discusses the debate between breadth-first and depth-first development. |
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Why Is the Configuration Management Database Both Praised and Reviled?For the novice the configuration management database (CMDB) can be a daunting task when considered in its entirety. To the seasoned pro and others, however, it might be viewed as a complete waste of resources. Joe Townsend looks at why the CMDB is praised—and yet reviled at the same time. | 
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