I have recently added the 3000th article on Softdevarticles.com. This directory provides pointers to articles that cover all areas of software development: programming, software quality, (project) management, databases, requirements, process improvement, ….

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events on Agile ( Scrum, Lean, Kanban) software testing, programming (Java, .NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP) and databases (NoSQL, MySQL, etc.) that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:

Gilb’s Law: “Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all.” Gilb’s Law doesn’t promise you that measurement will be free or even cheap, and it may not be perfect – just better than nothing.

Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management.  This month you will find information about requirements management, automated testing, risk management, documentation in Scrum and adopting Agile.

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 together, constitute a strategy we dubbed teamicide.

As mobile computing is becoming more and more important in software development, XBOSoft is organizing a survey to assess the state of software testing and quality assurance for mobile apps. The purpose of this survey is to collect data on how different QA organizations conduct mobile testing and QA and to analyze and present this data so organizations can compare their own mobile QA efforts with industry standards and best practices.

As Agile is becoming a more mainstream software development approach, I have seen recently on the Web more content about the importance of having cross-functional people in Scrum teams. Another denomination for this type of developer is to call them “T-shaped” people. The “T” symbolizes the deepness of the expertise in a particular topic and the broadness of knowledge in other areas of software engineering.
Large software development organizations have often chosen to have a tayloristic approach where people are separated according to their expertise: programmers, software testers, DBA, business analysts. …