What is Lean Software Development?

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Lean Software Development : The boom in the automotive industry in Japan in 1980s alarmed the need to follow the lean product development approach for better productivity at a lesser cost. Lean software development originated from a popular book by Tom and Mary Poppenieck that translates lean manufacturing principles to software development. The principles behind lean software development follow the principles of ‘Just in Time production’ launched by Toyota. The lean software development might be considered a subset of lean product development; certainly the principles that define lean product development are the same principles that form the basis of lean software development. These have […]

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What resources to use for OCAJP 8 Certification Exam?

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About this course:  Here are some basic OCAJP 8 Exam information you must be aware of. We suggest you to take a look at official Java certification website to learn more about the exam, patterns, and syllabus. Exam Details: Particulars Description Certification Name Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer Exam Code 1Z0-808 Duration of Exam 150 minutes Number of Questions 77 (Multiple Choice) Passing score 65 % (50 out of 77) Pre-requisite None Oracle certified Professional Java Programmer (OCAJP) is the entry level programmer certification for JAVA technology. Oracle has split Java Professional Certifications into 2 parts: Oracle Certified

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How to prepare for PMI-ACP® Certification?

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PMI-ACP® certification is well known agile certification. Among the many other certifications available currently in the market, PMI-ACP® has its edge due to wider coverage of content and PMI assurance. As most of the organizations are moving towards agility, gaining an agile certification is more or less must these days. TRY NOW : Whizlabs Free Test for PMI-ACP exam? BUY NOW : Whizlabs Practice Test for PMI-ACP exam? Dynamics of market are changing at such a fast pace that adaptability to new ways of work is must. In this blog we shall be covering the things needed for PMI-ACP® certification

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Top reasons to get PMI ACP® Certified

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In today’s dynamic market environment Agile is the way to work. There are so many different school of thoughts in the market that makes it difficult for anyone to choose among a lot of certifications available in market. Definitely to be up to the market trends one needs to be aware about what is up, with the recent happenings and also what market demands are as part of new career growth opportunities. Agile certifications has been hot in market these days due to organizations moving towards agility. Clients want the working software quickly. There is dynamics in market which makes

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How to become a OCEJWCD 6 Certified?

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Congratulations on having achieved the coveted ‘Sun/Oracle certified Java programmer’ certification! You are feeling exhilarated and if you are setting your sights on achieving the ‘Oracle certified Expert, Java web component developer certification 6’ (OCEJWCD 6) certification next, then this blog post is for you. Resources: Before we start preparing for the exam, it is a good idea to start accumulating the resources for the exam. We list the resources for the exam below: 1.     The primary resource for the exam comes for Oracle and it is a good idea to book mark the Java EE 6 tutorial at: http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/docinfo.html and

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What is Extreme Programming in Agile Software Development?

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The agile software development is an umbrella containing a set of methods and ways to achieve the principles mentioned under the Agile Manifesto. All these methodologies abide by the principles of frequent collaboration between the teams, frequent delivery to the client, self-motivation etc. The methodologies currently being followed are Extreme programming(XP) Dynamic System development method(DSDM) Scrum Agile modelling Agile unified Process Agile Data method Essential Unified Process(Ess UP) Feature Driven Development Open Unified Process(Open UP) Lean Software Development Crystal Methods. Selecting what methodology to use depends on what the project is. There should be a proper thought process on how

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What is Value-Driven Delivery in the agile world?

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What is value? We need to define what a value is before dwelling into how to go about value driven delivery in the agile software development. The value could be defined in terms of monetary benefit, compliance adherence, an answer to the competition in the market etc. The term value can differ for each client based on what the client is expecting the product/software to accomplish. The end product of a project is a value to the customer. In the agile way of project management, always the requirements are prioritized based on what adds more value to customer delivery. For

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Tracking the Value delivered in the agile world

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Tools to track the value delivered: How do we track the value delivered to the customer in the Value-driven delivery? Below are some of the ways to achieve the same: Kanban or Task charts Burn down charts Risk management and risk burn down charts. Earned value management Burn down charts: What are burndown charts? Burndown charts measure the work done by having the time represented on x-axis and the work to be done in the y-axis in a chart. You can measure them either using story points or hours as measuring units. The burn down chart depicts whether the team

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How to calculate value in value driven delivery

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The methods to calculate value: The value in monetary terms can be calculated using many terms: Simple schemes – rank the requirements from high to low. Present Value: The process of calculating the value today on future amount and can be calculated using the formula PV=FV/(1+i)n where PV = Present value, FV=Future Value, i=interest rate, n=number of periods. Internal rate of return (IRR): It is the discount rate at which the project revenues and project costs are equal. The project with the maximum IRR is selected. MoSCoW prioritization: This is based on the category prioritization where everything falls under any

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What is Shodan?

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Having a life without ‘Google’ is hard to imagine today. We would be lost without the popular search engine in our lives. The popular retort “Google it” is always on our lips for any query posed by anybody. While Google searches for web sites, there is another search engine that is slowly gaining prominence. This is ‘Shodan’. ‘Shodan’ is a search engine for ‘IoT’ or ‘Internet of things’. Internet of things or ‘IoT’: Before we start discussing ‘Shodan’ let us first explain ‘IoT’. Recall, that we have already discussed ‘IoT’ in an earlier post. ‘Internet of things’ can be defined

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