Dear Roadmap, I’m Not Breaking Up with You!

Your product roadmap is a powerful tool for showing  where you want to take your product and how you plan to achieve your goals. Creating an effective roadmap, however, is not an easy task, especially in an Agile environment where circumstances and ideas rapidly change.

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How Agile Can Help Organize Your Life

Have you ever felt like you are so involved with your work that you are losing control of your personal life? Have you ever seen yourself delivering all your work right on time but then forget to pay a bill or buy your wife's birthday gift? Well, let me tell you: you are not alone! What you might not have considered is that, as an enthusiastic Agilist professional, the same good practices that you utilize with all your work can also be very helpful with your personal daily life. But how?

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Feature Files: Concepts and Tips

How many times have you come across a story that is ready for testing, but does not fit all the acceptance criteria? Did you know that a majority of cases are related to bad feature file writing? In this snippet, I am going to present some standards and tips on feature file writing. These tips will help prevent late and bad outcomes, as well as endorse software quality using techniques and approaches that will help the Agile team to accomplish a better outcome for the stories within the project.

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Lessons We Learned From Agile Trends 2017

Agile Trends is an event that aims to push the boundaries of the Software Industry with modern themes, trends and real-world use cases. And of course, Avenue Code was there to sponsor it. In addition to sponsoring, we sent some of our best and brightest to learn from the speakers and fellow attendees. Here's what we learned.

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Software Craftsmanship Manifesto - A call for professionalism

Compared with other leading professions, the software industry is still in the early stages of development.  As in any field, software developers are constantly attempting to identify practices and principles to develop better and faster software. As we've grown up as an industry, we've created resources such as Software Architecture and the Agile Manifesto, the importance of which is clear and well-established. 

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