This variance is due to differences in the cost of living, usually in urban communities. At the current time, 29 states have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour), and five states have not set a state minimum wage.
How We Finally Made Agile. Development Work. BY JEFF GOTHELF. Many software products benefit from a continuous improvement model, and for the teams. working on them, increased agility is inevitable. Yet, despite dozens of books on the subject, thousands of eager coaches, and a multitude of software vendors hawking products to make agile.
Discovering the Agile Testing Quadrants was close to an epiphany to me. They helped me to think much clearer about the different concepts, disciplines and fields of software testing. The original concept is from Brian Marick, but the quadrants are discussed in depth in the brilliant book Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.