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What's in the September/October 2014 Better Software Magazine?

In our latest issue of Better Software magazine, the feature articles focus on software licensing and ways to improve your team’s approach to process improvement. Creating software for a wide range of platforms is difficult enough, but enforcing software licensing also can be challenging.

Take a More Agile Approach to Problem SolvingYour managers want you to estimate features or projects months or even years in advance. But the work changes—or the code changes, or the people on the project change. What you thought might be a reasonable estimate four weeks ago looks wacko when you revisit it in six months. What can you do?
Measuring the Business Value in Agile ProjectsVenkatesh Krishnamurthy looks at some key ways to measure the business value of your project's agile performance. With consideration to the Agile Manifesto, Krishnamurthy uncovers different approaches to getting the most out of your user stories and defining true value.
AgileConnection Update: Transitions, Distributed Teams, and ManagersJohanna Rothman, technical editor of AgileConnection, highlights some of the content that's being published on the site, including articles about using certain agile practices on an otherwise traditional project, the challenges of distributed teams, and another myth for misguided managers.
I Don’t Sprint, I Stroll: A Non-Techie’s Journey to Product OwnershipWhat happens when the director of marketing becomes a product owner for some of her company's web properties? She gets a crash course on the real meaning of agile development and her role in it all—and a newfound respect for the people who work in software engineering every day.
Turning to the Turing Test for AgileWhat if there were some kind of a Turing Test for agile teams? A test that could separate those who are just mechanically following the process and those who are emoting the agile essence? This article explores that possibility.
The July/August 2014 Issue of Better Software MagazineIn the latest issue of Better Software magazine, there are insightful articles covering a wide range of topics impacting the software delivery process. Feature articles explore the next wave of computing: mobile and wearable intelligent devices and the experiences and challenges they bring.
The Agile Manifesto: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Thirteen years after the creation of the Agile Manifesto, Joe Townsend discusses its role in today's world and delves into the merits of a possible rewrite by its original creators. Townsend also covers some viable alternatives and what other manifestos may appear in the wake of the Agile Manifesto.