New Conferences Partnerships
Published April 29th, 2008 Under Conferences, Software Development | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the following software development conferences:
SemTech 2008, May 18-22, San Jose, USA
IBM Rational Software Development Conference, June 1-5 2008, Orlando, USA
SEETEST 2008, July 2-3 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria
Agile Business Conference, September 23-24 2008, London, UK
Managing Iterative Software Development Projects
Published April 22nd, 2008 Under Books, Software Development | Leave a Comment
As agile software development approaches are more and more adopted in software development organizations, the title of this book from Kurt Bittner and Ian Spence seems to be right on the target. The book contains two major parts. The first gives an overview of iterative project management. It defines the concepts, discuss controlling and gives tips to assess your readiness for iterative project management. The second is a more detailed walk-through to the planning and management of iterations at different levels. It provides also information on how to assess the results of iterations, discuss the relation between iterative project management and project scales. The last chapter is dedicated to the information needed to start your first iterative project. Finally, appendices provide material on use case development (the topic of a former book from the same authors), templates, checklists and an example of 50 pages.
The process behind the book is widely based on the RUP approach; thus practitioners of a “pure” agile approach could be disoriented by the content. However, this book contains very valuable and pragmatic material about managing iterative project management that could be used in any iterative context. It will also provide good transition information towards an iterative process for project managers that operate in a more traditional organization. With 600 pages, it is a not an easy book that is quickly digested. It will nevertheless helps you to improve you grasp on iterative project management, whether you read the book sequentially or you pick sections according to your current project management questions.
Get more details on this book or buy it on amazon.com
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New Conferences Partnerships
Published April 14th, 2008 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools | Comments Off
Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the following software development conferences:
ROOTS – Recent Object Oriented Trends 2008 April 28-30 2008, Bergen, Norway
TheServerSide.com Java Symposium Europe June 18-20 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) October 13-15, 2008, Portland, USA
More than 1000 articles in Software Development Articles Directory
Published April 9th, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, Software Development | Comments Off
The Software Development Article Directory has now more than 1000 articles in its database. This directory references knowledge-providing articles related to all software development activities (programming, testing, configuration management, process and project management) selected from the best sources on the web.
Some of the last interesting additions to the directory are
* Must-have tools for HTML, JavaScript and AJAX development and debugging
Use the best open source tools to work with Web pages, scripts, and styles, and make development of new sites and pages easy.
* Schedule Adherence: A Useful Measure for Project Management
This article utilizes the new practice of Earned Schedule (ES) to discuss a proposed measure for further enhancing the practice of EVM. The measure, Schedule Adherence, provides additional early warning information to project managers, thereby enabling improved decision making and enhancing the probability of project success.
* Focus on Value: How to create value-driven user stories
Agile has a tool that can help organizations re-focus on return on investment: value-driven user stories. Value-driven user stories are created specifically to link features with their users and the value the features have for their users. They can be created from a list of high-level features or a list of values and users centered on a general idea.