Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Now that Agile has established itself as the dominant new trend in software development, the number of books that deal with this topic is increasing every day. Besides the fact that Mike Cohn is a recognized expert in the area of agile project management, why should you buy his book...
This blog post is about how to improve software project estimations by breaking tasks into sizes no larger than one productive day.
Risk management is a central part of traditional project management and is included as one of the knowledge areas in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) body of knowledge. In many of my classes, participants ask how Scrum and agile address risk management. Some are concerned that agile or Scrum ignore...
This post presents what is successful project management and reasons for the popularity of Scrum.
The article “Adaptive Project Management Using Scrum” by Craig Murphy provides a basic overview of Scrum, an agile process for managing software development project.
The article “The Upside of Downsizing” describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make such a dramatic adjustment the development process was switched to Scrum and user stories.
The Scrum Alliance is a not-for-profit professional membership organization created to share the Scrum framework and transform the world of work.