How to Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds
The conversation challenges traditional governance models, advocating for hypothesis-driven product management and continuous feedback mechanisms to deliver quality software.
Project Management for Software Development
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Code Comfort: Working Code over Documentation
Working software over comprehensive documentation is one of the key element of the Agile Manifesto. In his book “Software Ownership Transfer”, Vinod Sankaranarayanan provides his perspective on why software documentation should not become an objective in itself for software development projects.
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The Best Agile Metrics That Don’t Suck
In the immortal words of Peter Senge, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” So, you need to measure things, and measure them well. And you need to measure the right things too! This video shares the best Agile metrics.
Beyond Code: Essential AI Skillsets for Software Development Teams
This presentation encourages you to ignore THE HYPE. Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t take your job. not yet, anyway! You don’t have to fear coding assistants that do the job of entire software development teams. The technology isn’t there yet. As impressive as it may seem, AI is too primitive to...
Advanced Software Development Team Temperature
Building software development teams is easy. A lot of people could tell you how to do that. But building teams in a way that everyone would get closer to the things that matter to them and perform in an optimal way long-term is a lot more difficult. You see, the...
The Problem with Software Project Success Criteria
Defining success in software development projects is not an easy task. In his book “Project Myopia”, Allan Kelly discusses the definition of success criteria for software development projects.
Unlocking Your Software Development Project Team Potential
As you advance in your software development career, your responsibilities evolve from being a junior to a senior, project manager, architect, or scrum master. How does this transformation affect your daily duties, and what value do you bring to the project team? Can your software development team function efficiently without...
Free and Open Source Project Management Tools
This article contains a selected list of free and open source project management software tools that can be used to manage software development projects. The features provided by traditional open source project management tools are the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the Gantt and PERT charts, Critical Path Management (CPM) to...
A Guide To Managing Technical Teams
This video offers advice on leading software development teams. How do you make the step from software developer to manager? How do you deal with difficult situations and conversations? What are some of the commonest mistakes that people starting out in team leadership often make?
The Most Valuable Software Development Team Positions
This article originally contains a list of resources about the most valuable positions, roles and responsibilities in a software development team. The original content mentioned had disappeared, so you will find below another list of resources about the how to form the best software development teams and what are the...
Data Modeling: MongoDB vs. RDBMS Schema Design
In this article, based on chapter 4 of MongoDB in Action, author Kyle Banker explains how MongoDB schema differs from an equivalent relational database (RDBMS) schema, and how common data model relationships between entities, such as one-to-many and many-to-many, are replicated in MongoDB.
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