Project Mgmt.

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

Okay... so my writing is slowing down again.

0 replies - 4677 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News

Agile Project Status Reporting

A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile

0 replies - 3509 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 5770 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

Agile Project Planning

Projects are a necessary evil :-) But necessary they are.Some people really feel the need to understand precisely what the project will cost and exactly long...

0 replies - 712 views - 08/22/08 by Kelly Waters in News

Alan Cooper on Agile Interaction Design

Alan Cooper impresses me. He has become the spokesperson for the software development community to me. Alan gave the closing keynote talk at Agile 2008. Alan...

1 replies - 456 views - 08/18/08 by Frank Cohen in Articles

Agile2008: Converting business value into actual money

At Agile2008, Luke Hohmann from Enthiosys talked about converting business value into actual money. Luke

0 replies - 370 views - 08/18/08 by energizr in Articles

The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my previous attempt, since I find...

6 replies - 3383 views - 08/14/08 by Ted Neward in Articles

Software Development Methodologies - The Definitive List

TerminologyIn the various descriptions of methods on Wikipedia I have noticed many different terms being used, like method, process, model, framework, etc.. In...

0 replies - 2710 views - 08/12/08 by jurgenappelo in Articles

Jira MultiSite: Clustered Issue Tracking for Your Distributed Enterprise

With over 8000 customers, JIRA from Atlassian has quickly become the leading issue tracking and project management application of choice. But IT organizations...

0 replies - 3155 views - 08/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Videos

The Undercover Adventure (Part 3): Sometimes it’s like trying to appreciate the “squareness” of a peg with round thinking.

When I initially started at the mine around 3 months ago I never anticipated that this industry would have as many acronyms as the IT industry. I was wrong. My...

2 replies - 2427 views - 07/29/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.

I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in front of...

6 replies - 2669 views - 07/21/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!

After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was time to...

10 replies - 3255 views - 07/15/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility

"When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle-doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about...

0 replies - 2096 views - 07/10/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

10 Principles of Agile Project Management

Project Time Management is one of the nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). It deals with the definition of activities...

0 replies - 1480 views - 06/25/08 by jurgenappelo in News

Agile adoption: Why isn't this stuff working?

Lately I've been hearing feedback from lots of different people that they've "adopted" agile and it's just not working for them. This always causes...

0 replies - 1194 views - 05/28/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News