DIGEST: And the fresh LAST links are...

And the last fresh links are indeed these ones:

The productivity Dept. (send me your suggestions, please): 

• http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/11/tools-newfilego-productivity-tools-file.html
• Search for TOOLS, Productivity here around. And remember to send me info on your suggestions. 

Additional info on SW Requirements / Requirements Analysis:

1. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/05/process-software-requirements-team.html
2. See your QMS "requirements standard" (INTERNAL; includes best practices and conventions). 
3. Read books on the subject and related subjects: Requirements analysis, requirements engineering, business process analysis (a broader topic), writing god requirements. "Google" and/or "Amazon" them.
4. Writing good requirements paper here (PDF)
5. Requirement types: http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/11/requirements-requirements-types.html

About SW Design / Architecture (and security as well as performance, quality attributes of architectures):

• The VAP info can be found online here (PDF). 

Security topic and the embedded link to the Check List repository:

1. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/05/sw-design-security-as-design-quality.html
2. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/07/resource-security-is-process.html
3. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/08/security-magic-quadrants-for-mss-remote.html
4. Slightly off-topic but equally interesting: http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/11/security-industrial-control-systems.html

Additional info on Design Patterns, Code Smells, Refactoring (already shown but repeated here for reinforcement or whatever you would like me to call it): 

1. Design patterns: "The index" in Wikipedia is here. 
2. Several books, also called "bibles": The GOF book as well as Code Complete 2. 
3. Another interesting resource is sourcemaking.com (Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Refactoring / Code Smells).

Performance (but not only) topic:  

• Performance (and architecture that drives/enables this performance): http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/

Additional resources for SW construction:

1. Static Analysis: 
2. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/05/tools-source-monitor-static-analysis.html
3. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/05/tools-static-analysis-tools-listing.html
4. http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/10/sw-construction-static-analysis-tools.html

Additional resources for SW Testing:

• http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/11/sw-testing-list-of-105-software-testing.html

The Agile Dept.: 
Agile additional info including the Agile state of scrum report, info on Product vision statements rationale and examples, and additional tools as well as books. You will not die without a pile of stuff to read if you follow these final links:

1. Digest 1: http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/09/starting-learning-agile.html
2. Digest 2: http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/07/index-agilescrum-index-of-useful-links.html
3. Digest 3 (ufff): http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/10/digest-agilescrum-links.html
4. BOOK http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/08/mr-scrum-wrote-yet-another-book-scrum.html
5. The Product Vision "art": http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/06/about-product-vision.html

And so on. So they say. Happy reading!

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