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Information/knowledge flow within the team

I want to avoid the situations when my developers do not share the common knowledge (solutions for the problems they encountered, cool tips, common mistakes, shortcuts for achieving particular goal, configuration issues, partial requirements, etc.)…
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What is the impact of ITIL or CMMI on the development?

I read a lot of books about what practices work well or not in software development. And I have NEVER heard about methodoly like ITIL or CMMI in any webcast or book or blogs in the development field. I have heard about these methodologies in my…
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In Azure Devops, what is the easiest way to see the total story points for a particular sprint in a particular status

In the board view, the top of the column shows a number of work items in each column. I'd prefer that it instead show the sum of the story points of the work items in that column. Barring that, I'm looking for the dead-simplest…
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Command Pattern leading to class explosion

It seems like whenever I use the Command Pattern, it always leads to a significantly larger number of classes than when I don't use it. This seems pretty natural, given that we're executing chunks of relevant code together in separate classes. It…
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What is the best way to encourage communication in a team?

I work in a medium sized team (20+ developers) where I believe communication amongst team members is not as good as it could be. Like most teams, I suppose, we have several systems that we build and maintain. We also use dozens of varied tools in…
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How to be a agile programmer?

I am a trainee in development sector. My Boss says that i should be an agile programmer. I went through through the net and found some interesting things about agile programming. Being a newbee how should I start with agile? What should be my first…
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Evidence based studies on the topic of best programming practices?

When seeking advice on good programming practices the typical answers are a variation of agile software development, test driven development or design patterns. However, as far as I know, neither of these are proven using the scientific method (if…
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Scrum: Resistance is (not) futile

I'm the second dev and a recent hire here at a PHP/MySQL shop. I was hired mostly due to my experience in wrangling some sort of process out of a chaotic mess. At least, that's what I did at my last company. ;) Since I've been here (a few months…
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Business rules integration to User Stories

I have a set of User Stories and I have a set of business rules (primarily laws binding my requirements to be compliant). In Agile SDLC I'm not sure where these "rules" are attached to my user stories. For example, a user story like: As a doctor I…
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Is Agile different from TDD ? If so what are the main differences?

Is Agile really different from TDD ? If so what are the main differences ?
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Difference between Scrum and other Agile methods?

I am looking to introduce an agile method to my boss so that we could hopefully implement it at our work place. I've been doing a lot of research yet I can't find what makes it standout from other agile methods. I am thinking maybe it is the…
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Please define the agile concept of core hours

I'm in a new contract where they seem to have gone overboard with Agile, including hiring a consultant merely for facilitating Agile processes. Something he is instituting is a notion of "core hours" where we will all actually be in the same room…
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Tracking user stories in JIRA / Greenhopper

If anyone is trying to do agile, i am trying to figure out a way to use JIRA / Greenhopper for this. We are a global dev team so the distributed nature is crucial here. We were initially using Scrumworks but the team complained that they had…
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Is RUP an Agile method

I have been reading software development methodologies. I came across a line which says that agile methods include Rational Unified Process, Scrum, Crystal Clear, Extreme Programming, Adaptive Software Development, Feature Driven Development, and…
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What good practices, if any, has the agile movement lost?

I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair…
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