This article proposes a set of best practices about RUP (Rational Unified Process) for software project managers. Each best practice is accompanied by suggestions on how you can implement or integrate these RUP best practices...
Project manager can use influence to get things done, but you’ll still need to negotiate. This article discusses Good, Bad, and Ugly approaches to negotiate in software development projects. You will learn how you might...
In this blog post, Tom Perry shares his thoughts about how the software project team productivity is influenced by change. Finding that combination of what works for a project can take time. However, when this...
The Team Software Process (TSP) provides a framework to predictably and effectively build software-intensive products. It relies on data collected by team members to provide insight into how a software project is operating.
In this blog post, Tomek Kaczanowski share a checklist of things to do when you take over a software project as a technical team lead. The list contains more than 60 items that could be...
“The reason that most software developers don’t seem to get excited about meeting cost and schedule commitments is that these usually are not team goals. Although management may think that cost and schedule are important,...
The activity of project managers should be to gather requirements, estimates and control the work … or is it? This articles suggests that the main activity of project managers is in fact negotiation. You will...
This article presents three ways to predict schedules based on historical data with some amount of rigor. Evidence-based project management is a technique that allows you to generate predictions for a release based on historical...
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