Why Software Development Best Practices are Hard to Practice
Kailash Awati discusses the situation of best practices in software development in his post “Why best practices are hard to practice“.
July 17, 2026
Project Management Planet
2026
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...
July 14, 2026
Collective Risk Management in Software Projects
Effective risk management in software development projects requires business, product, and technical leaders to step beyond their individual domains and actively engage in the uncomfortable, shared space of collective risk management.
July 13, 2026
The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes
His name is Darius Blasband and he is a codeaholic. This is how one of the first chapter of the book The Rise and Fall of Software Recipes is titled. You should therefore expect to...
July 1, 2026
Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x?
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is the brave new world in AI coding we all knew was inevitable. More like a revolution than an evolution of software delivery, SDD produces solutions as artifacts of a structured specification.
June 9, 2026
Making it Big in Software
You can read on the back cover of the “Making it Big in Software” book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software development career: the best way to get hired, move up,...
June 1, 2026
Seven Habits of a Mostly Successful Software Project Team
This presentation shares stories from the trenches—what worked, what failed, and you should never do again in a software development project team. If you have ever wondered how to build a team that doesn’t just...
May 21, 2026
Attitude vs Knowledge in Software Development Projects
In her article for the Summer 2016 issue of Methods & Tools, “Hiring for Agility,” Nadia Smith suggested considering an interesting difference between the need to recruit for “Agile”, defined as the knowledge and experience...
May 12, 2026
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