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Do you sometimes wonder about the methodology you as a leader must select for a project? Do you ask yourself whether it will lead to the success of the project or not?

On the 26th of March Luxoft Training hosted the monthly meeting of one of the largest Java communities in Bucharest, Bucharest Java User Group or BJUG for short.

You have just made your case to upper management regarding test automation and your proposal has been accepted. Surprisingly, they were excited about how your automation plan can move testing much faster. Or, upper management simply asked you to start automating testing, as they are convinced of its benefits. In either case, you now have a blank check and a deadline to meet.

On the 17th and 19th of February Luxoft Training hosted a webinar master class with Adam Bien, one of the world’s foremost experts on Java. Adam has been working with Java since 1995 and is a regular speaker at various industry conferences.

The role of "tester" is now one of the most popular jobs in the software industry. While programming is taught in higher education institutions, testing unfortunately is seldom found in the curriculum. But if you choose to go down this professional path, testing can be learned with some effort.

Among the most challenging subjects for managers across industries, performance related conversations with team members is always somewhere on top. Now why is this so complicated? Isn’t it something like “Hey Jack, you’ve done a good job but I know you can make it even better…”?

Mistake 1: Life without plans In spite of frequent changes appearing in the IT business anyone who wants to be successful should have a documented To-do list (day, week and month). No matter what system you use – MS Project, Excel or notes on your desk, it should be valid and up-to-date.

In this last part we will look at how the concepts of the nine situations, attack by fire and the use of spies apply to software development. We will also draw some conclusions on the ideas we have talked about in our three part series.

In the first part of the article regarding the similarities between Sun Tzu’s Art of War and software development we talked about how you should make sure that you show incremental results in order to build team confidence and about focusing on bringing added value to the business goals. We will now look at how the concepts from the Art of War apply to other aspects of software development.

This is the first part of a three part series where we will look at the similarities between war strategies and software development methods, making extended references to the Agile method and to one of the most renowned military treatises, Sun Tzu's The Art of War.