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Three Tough Decisions Developers FaceSoftware development is still a fairly young profession. As technology continues to change, so does the act of development. Here is some insight into the difficulty presented by an everchanging profession. | 
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A Brief History of Scrum Scrum has not been immune to controversy, and the history of how and who invented it is a topic of frequent debate. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy describes this popular framework's confusing origin story. |
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Agile Enables Google Developers to Find Success in FailurePatrick Copeland, senior engineering director at Google, explains how the company uses their own version of agile-based methodologies to drive their teams to be more creative and unafraid to fail. From the speed of delivery to the quality of the finished product, agile is working at Google. | 
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Requirements Gathering vs. ElicitationWhile mature business analysis professionals and organizations have adopted “elicitation” as a preferred term, the business analyst job market has not gotten the memo. Laura Brandenburg explores the latest and greatest term "requirements gathering" and discusses if either of these terms is accurate. | 
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What Can You Do with Big Data? Big data doesn’t refer to high fives or towering twelves. It refers to lots of data. The primary goal of handling big data is to capture all the data available in a given computing scenario and then analyze it to find identifiable business, behavior, or other patterns. |
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VMware Updates vCloud Suite While Cisco Eyes a Potential RivalVirtualization software giant VMware, Inc. made news this week with an update to the company’s vCloud Suite 5.1 while two top executives at VMware and Cisco made public the companies’ tenuously friendly relationship. | 
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How Software Leans toward Agility and ExperimentationAgility depends on learning and experimentation. You make decisions, execute, and then re-evaluate. Steve Berczuk explores why software development is a natural medium for experimentation and agility, because, in a physical sense, software is relatively easy to manipulate. | 
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The Top Five UX Pet Peeves We Love to HateThe common themes underlying many user experience problems boil down to forcing users to do work that the software should have done for them or assuming that software developers know better than users what they want or need. Rick Scott details his top five user experience pet peeves. | 
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