Book Review: Stand Back & Deliver
“Stand Back and Deliver” is a book about leadership. This is not an easy topic to be discussed in a book, but this one gives you some tools that will help you to assess situations and act on them.
Project Management for Software Development
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Learning Together: How to Share Knowledge Across Project Teams
When you work with many software developers, spanning different teams and different projects, it is hard to keep up with changes. This presentation shares how FutureLearn utilizes their culture of learning, to keep their software engineers up-to-date on topics from ECMAScript changes to wilder concepts like generative art.
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Creating ValueFirst Product Organizations
Even when having an Agile organization, projects tend to deliver late and over budget, so we all dream to a product-development organization that delivers on-time and under-budget, every time. Is it possible?
A Leadership Guide for Reluctant Leaders
Regardless of the technology you know, regardless of the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond as a leader. This presentation shares a few candid stories of the presenter’s career failures.. or learning opportunities.
How to Hire Great Software Engineers
In a world that increasingly runs on code, finding and hiring great software engineers is a constraint that is shared between all organizations whether they are a tech giant or a small startup. Unfortunately, many organizations do not understand that there is a huge difference between software engineering and talent...
Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams
Learn from Wade Foster how to manage remote teams for software development. Wade Foster is a co-founder of Zapier, a company that has over 160 employees and no office. Zapier is a fully-remote company, and has no intention of changing that. Here, Wade shares his processes for running a fully...
Book Review: Beyond Agile
When the authors describe the purpose of Beyond Agile, they write “one of the constant criticisms of all management styles and fads is that they seldom come with real in-the-field case studies”. There are many books that deal with how organizations should adopt of Agile, Scrum or Kanban and explain...
There Are No Snow Days For The Remote Project Manager
Do you think you have what it takes to work remote as a project manager? Better yet, does your company, the project or the place you are interviewing with have what it takes to support remote workers?
Interview with Julia Dellnitz about Agile Methodologies
In this interview was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2018 with Julia Dellnitz, she discusses about what does it mean to be an Agile Coach. She presents also what is the biggest obstacle for companies implementing an Agile Methodology and what do you think about Scrum.
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 to describe the sequences of...
Building Trust in Software Development Teams
Richard Campbell discusses his experiences building trust within software development teams with time, effort, honesty and pizza. Today businesses run on software, and the quality of that software is directly affected by the level of trust the team members responsible for that software have with each other – from management...