Winter 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools

Published December 22nd, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, Software Development | Leave a Comment

Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Winter 2008 issue’s content:

* Fingers in the Air: a Gentle Introduction to Software Estimation

* Behavior Driven Database Design

* Optimizing the Contribution of Testing to Project Success

* Service Components and Compositions

45 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter08

New Conferences Partnership

Published December 15th, 2008 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, Software Development | Leave a Comment

Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 18-20 2009, Las Vegas, USA. Attend TheServerSide Java Symposium to solve today’s toughest development challenges while delivering faster results – guaranteed. You discover innovative technologies that improve quality, cut costs and reduce the time it takes to create mission-critical apps.

More software conferences information and archives on http://www.softdevconferences.com/

My 10 Favorites Agile Project Management Articles

Published December 9th, 2008 Under Links, Software Development | 1 Comment

This is a (personal) list of articles dealing with agile project management that I like. I have chosen to include material that is longer than the usual (short) blog posting. I encourage readers to give more objectivity to this subjective set by submitting in the comments what they preferred ;o)

Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork by Gautam Ghosh

The Agile Customer’s Toolkit by Tom Poppendieck

Bridging Agile and Traditional Development Methods: A Project Management Perspective by Paul E. McMahon

Managing the Work in an Agile Project by Dan Rawsthorne

A Governance Model for Incremental, Concurrent, or Agile Projects by Alistair Cockburn

Measuring Integrated Progress on Agile Software Development Projects by Tamara Sulaiman & Hubert Smits

Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards by Kenji Hiranabe

The Pomodoro Technique (The Pomodoro) by Francesco Cirillo

Agile Fixed Price Projects part 1: “The Price Is Right” by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe
Agile Fixed Price Projects part 2: “Do you want agility with that?”

The Need for Agile Project Management by Mike Cohn and Ken Schwaber

Additional agile project management article resources

Agile Alliance Library
Scrum Alliance Library
Agile Journal
DZone Agile Zone
InfoQ Agile Section
Methods & Tools Articles Archive
Mountain Goat Articles
Software Development Articles, Agile Section
Agile Voices

New Web Site: Software Quality Assurance Planet

Published December 2nd, 2008 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment

The Software Quality Assurance Zone is a aggregator for RSS feeds concerning software testing (unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, load testing), code review and inspection, bug and defect tracking, continuous integration. If you or your company has a blog on software quality don’t hesitate to use the site contact form to ask for inclusion in the web site.

http://www.sqaplanet.com/