Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Software Development Project Management
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, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than software...
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 of Agile practices, and to recruit for “agility”, defined as attitude, values and behavior.
So instead of looking for ways to make team formation possible, we began to think of ways to make it impossible. That was easy. In no time at all, we came up with lots of surefire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken...
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.
Modern software development approaches like Agile and Scrum support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to...
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.
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...
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...
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