Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Conway’s law describes the link between communication structure of organizations and the systems they design. It is named after the computer scientist and programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967: “[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies...
The Process of Software Architecting is a book that presents the influence of architecture in the software development process. The interesting aspect of this book is that is it a thorough presentation of the architecture role in the software development activities, not only at the initial analytic stage but also...
The conversation challenges traditional governance models, advocating for hypothesis-driven product management and continuous feedback mechanisms to deliver quality software.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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?
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