New Conferences Partnerships
Published November 26th, 2008 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, Software Development | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the following software development conferences:
Open Source .NET eXchange 2009, January 22 2009, London, UK
Spring eXchange 2009, January 29 2009, London, UK
Boosting Software Quality with Agile Processes March 18-20 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
EclipseCon 2009, March 23-26 2009, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Global Project Management
Published November 20th, 2008 Under Books, Software Development | Leave a Comment
In a global world, software development projects concern more and more people working in various locations or coming from different organizations and culture. Managing these projects requires thinking beyond the traditional project management techniques to integrate these additional global dimensions and deal with the new issues that they create. This book helps project managers to think about this situation by proposing a detailed framework dealing with the team, communication, organization, tools and techniques dimensions of global projects. Every chapter has a good balance between conceptual material and real life examples. Many checklists and models are proposed to help assessing the global aspects of specific situations. The author invites also the reader to think how the current topic is handled in his organization. Finally, the book provides many pointers to additional literature that could help a reader to get more knowledge on a particular topic. More information on the global project management framework can be obtained on http://www.globalprojectmanagement.org
The book has received in 2008 the Project Management Institute (PMI) David Cleland Project Management Literature Award that recognizes the best project management literature published during the previous calendar year.
Gower Publishing, ISBN: 978-0566087066, Hardcover: 308 pages
To get more details on this book or buy it on amazon.com
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Linkopedia November 2008
Published November 12th, 2008 Under Links, Software Development | Leave a Comment
38 Software design tips from the creator of C++ gives useful software design tips from Bjarne Stroustrup
Agile Chronicles #1: Stressful The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development.
Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface This post presents a common scenario wherein business logic is tightly coupled to a service and provides instruction for refactoring the concrete dependency to a more testable and loosely coupled configuration.
Understanding Models, Views, and Controllers. This tutorial provides you with a high-level overview of ASP.NET MVC models, views, and controllers. In other words, it explains the ‘M’, ‘V’, and ‘C’ in ASP.NET MVC.
Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP. With PHP’s object-oriented (OO) language features, if you aren’t already creating your applications with OO principles in mind, these seven habits will help you get started in the transition between procedural programming and OO programming.
Writing Testable Code. Misko Hevery made a presentation at Google Tech Talks about unit testing. He tells us that “There is no secret to writing tests… … there are only secrets to writing testable code!”.
Concordion. Concordion is an open source framework for Java that lets you turn a plain English description of a requirement into an automated test – an active specification.
Roma Framework. Roma allows you to develop enterprise level Java applications with low effort following a real Domain Driven Design approach.
Testability-explorer. Testability-explorer is a tool which analyzes java byte-codes and computes how difficult it will be to write unit-test.
More interesting links on the software development links directory, the software development articles directory or the software development videos directory
More than 1000 tools registered at SoftDevTools.com
Published November 4th, 2008 Under Links, News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
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