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How to Reach the Software Quality Graal?
2018-06-19 in 2018
Lately I was asked how many bugs and smells detected through SonarQube were acceptable for a software product. And a Scrum master inquired which organizational changes are necessary to empower software developers to write good code. Speechless and …
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Agile Trends Switzerland 2018
2018-05-20 in 2018
What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? The Swiss agile trends report was published for the last ten years and learn us the difficulties and successes of agile transformations. SwissQ has published a "SwissQ …
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Sonar Lint for the Impatient
2018-05-16 in 2018
Remove issues before they reach customer sites. No quality problems shall reach your Git master branch. SonarQube is a central server that processes full analyses (triggered by the various SonarQube Scanners). Its purpose is to give a 360° vision …
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Agile Introduction Success Criteria through the LeSS Lens
2018-04-18 in 2018
An agile organization is able to deliver or change her direction at any time without additional cost. More companies want to become truly agile and book an expensive journey to the holy land of agility. Often travelers never reach their true …
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Pragmatic Craftsmanship - Professional Software Developer
2018-04-12 in 2018
The last months I was often confronted with software products having insufficient quality. Insufficient means late delivery, and few new features. The effort to correct errors in the field eats 30% to 50% away from the development budget. How can …
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Why Do You Need Metrics and KPI in Agile Product Development?
2018-03-14 in 2018
Why do we define metrics and KPI? First, we want to find out how good the build-in quality of our software artifacts is. Second, we want to improve the build-in quality through experiments and use the metrics to judge the success of these …
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Agile GIS Open Data Initiative
2018-03-12 in 2018
How can agile approaches be applied to deliver solutions in a government environment? Here is an example of a GIS open data portal successfully developed using agile approaches such as Kanban, lean product and technical excellence. GIS Open Data …
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Java 10 aka 18.3 Changes
2018-03-09 in 2018
Oracle has decided to release a new JDK two times a year. The next release of Java 10 aka 18.3 will be available in March 2018. JDK 11 aka 18.9 will be released in September 2018. Java 11 will also be a long-term support LTS release. For Java to …
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Six Levers for better Agile Product Development
2018-02-21 in 2018
How can you create better products and services? How can you delight your customers, your collaborators, and your stakeholders? We identified six levers to multiply the effectivity of your agile development teams and empower them to create great …
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Scrum Guide 2017: What changed?
2018-02-09 in 2018
The Scrum guide was revised in 2016 and got clarification concerning the core values. I was thrilled. Talking about values and mental models, you must have to successfully introduce and be agile is awesome. A new revision was published at the end of …