Has Agile Lost its Soul?
Published September 29th, 2008 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment
VersionOne has published raw results for the 3rd Annual State of the Agile Survey that was conducted in June and July 2008. Answers were received from 3061 participants in 80 countries. Participants working in agile projects are satisfied: they think that agile achieves a very good overall project success rate. Read more
Fall 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools
Published September 23rd, 2008 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Fall 2008 issue’s content:
* Controlling Project Risk by Design
* How to Choose Candidates for Large Agile Companies
* Outsourcing Software Testing
* Managing Scrum Meetings
35 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from
http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?fall08
Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers
Published September 19th, 2008 Under Links, Software Development | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools author Jurgen Appelo has an excellent blog, full of interesting information. In one of his last posts, he lists the 100 (well 125 in fact) top most popular blogs for software development managers. This is an excellent starting point to find resources on software development. Your can start with Jurgen’s blog… ;o)
More than 500 Links in SoftDevLinks.com
Published September 9th, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. Launched in June, it has achieved in September more than 500 links. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add (for free) your links in this directory.
Linkopedia September 2008
Published September 3rd, 2008 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Some recent interesting stuff found on the net
Notepad++ a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. I am very happy to use it.
WebWait is a website timer that you can use to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection.
A Scrum project that failed. This post is a description of a project failure and investigation of the root cause.
My First Agile Project: Part 1. This post is about what to do (and not to do) in an agile project.
Why Software Estimation is Hard. This article is about what agile can bring to software estimation.
Software Estimation is hard (right)? A follow up of the above post