Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
In a world of distributed systems, microservices, and fast-paced deployments, integration failures are still a leading cause of production issues. End-to-end tests are often too slow, flaky, and expensive to be your safety net.
If you are a software development project manager, you know that communication and trust in the project team are as important for the success as the technical challenges. This excerpt from a blog of Keavy McMinn gives an interesting insight on how to build trust.
Roman Zhukov (Red Hat) & Damian Brady (GitHub) discusses on the challenges and best practices of AI coding: faster≠better. Software developers need education, security practices and human oversight. AI amplifies, but it does not replace coding capabilities.
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 SQL Server stored procedure, sometimes referred to as a stored proc or procedure, allows you to write one or more TSQL statements and store them within your database so that they can be called over and over again without having to write that code aagain. This article shows you...
Remote work might now be considered the norm, but many software development teams have been doing it since “before it was cool”! That’s not to say everyone does it well, though…
In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the...
This presentation provides insights and an innovative application of Dave Snowden’s Estuarine Mapping at the team level. This method, often used for complex projects and bigger socio-economical systems, can also benefit everyone working with software development project teams.
Rest In Peace (R.I.P. from Latin requiescat in pace) is a sentence that typically appears on Christian tombstones. Software development projects usually have the same destiny. Once they are finished, often the best thing that will happen is a little celebration for the project team.
Software architects often have to navigate a complex environment, wrestling with legacy systems, battling organizational politics, explaining technical choices to management, dealing with software development team dynamics and – above all – chasing the perfect software architecture.
As companies transition to Agile and Scrum to manage their software development projects, how does this affect the work of business analysts? Nancy Nee, VP Global Product Strategy at ESI International, shares her opinion on the role of business analysts in Agile software development projects.
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