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Making it Big in Software

Project Management Planet — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:30:29 +0000

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...

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Attitude vs Knowledge in Software Development Projects

Project Management Planet — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:29:19 +0000

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. Without...

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Killing Softly Your Software Development Project Team With…

Project Management Planet — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:03 +0000

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...

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The Role of Business Analysts in Agile Software Development

Project Management Planet — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:52 +0000

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. She explains their relationships with...

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Reviewing Software Requirements for Testability

Project Management Planet — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:18:42 +0000

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...

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Building Trust as a Software Development Project Manager

Project Management Planet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:31:12 +0000

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. I’ve been fortunate in my...

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How to Create a SQL Server Stored Procedure

Project Management Planet — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:14:34 +0000

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...

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Building With the Right Scope in Software Development

Project Management Planet — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:59:48 +0000

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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Post-Mortem: “Bones” for Dead Software Projects

Project Management Planet — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:32:16 +0000

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. Nobody will formally look back...

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Why is MongoDB a Good NoSQL Implementation for Software Projects?

Project Management Planet — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:30:25 +0000

MongoDB is one of the most popular open source NoSQL database available. This database avoids the traditional table-based relational SQL database structure to favor of JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. Jenny Richards explains in this article why MongoDB is a good NoSQL implementation for software development projects. Author: Jenny Richards,...

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