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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Before OutSystems In 2006, I finally began my professional career as a Java developer at a Property & Casualty insurance company. Here, my diagnostic capabilities were really put to the test with their Java-based web applications. Amusingly, during this time, I never actually stopped coding; I just changed what I coded.

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The shift left fallacy

Xebia

The design, build, test and run activities all would be executed earlier in time, and therefore reducing big mistakes and thus reducing time and money. Defects are created during the creation (coding), and are identified during the various testing/ validation activities. This reasoning is very reasonable.

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Cost and Value of Certifications

Derek Huether

Let’s use the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification as our working example. The exam was awful, as it really didn’t test my knowledge of being a good project manager. I even went so far as contributing to the Software Extension of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

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Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Starting project without 102% clarity (100% clarity on scope/technology and 2% knowledge of how you can add value).

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A Bit About the HP3000

The Daily WTF

HP didn't really know what they had bought- they marketed it as a "test and instrumentation" system, and were surprised when businesses purchased it for back office operations. The project was killed in 1970, which threw some of the staff into "wear black armbands to work" levels of mourning.

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AoAD2 Chapter 2: Why Agile?

James Shore

1 See, for example, [Van Schooenderwoert 2006], [Mah 2006], and [Anderson 2006]. The most well-known practice is test-driven development, which helps programmers write code that does exactly what they intend. Product and project managers. There’s no point in Agile for the sake of Agile.

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Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.