Scrum Planet Looking for Scrum Blogs
Published September 14th, 2009 Under Methods & Tools, News | Leave a Comment
Scrum Planet is a web site that aggregates for RSS feeds focused on Scrum and agile project management. If you know about a good blog feed that is missing from the current roster, I would be please to add it. Thanks for your cooperation.
TV Agile: a New Agile Videos and Tutorials Directory
Published September 3rd, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
TV Agile is a directory of agile software development videos and tutorials, categorizing material on all agile aspects: scrum, TDD, lean, XP, etc. External contribution is encouraged ;o)
A (Mostly) Agile Java Day at Jazoon
Published June 26th, 2009 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | 3 Comments
Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time after the publication of my summer issue to visit Wednesday the Jazoon, an important Java event located in Zurich. Besides the global morning keynote, the conference has five parallel tracks, so the first thing in the morning is to make your choice between 30 presentations. This is easier for me, because I am not a Java specialist and so I focused on talks with content that could reach outside the Java community. Read more
Should Developers Come Only from Mars but Project Managers from Venus?
Published June 23rd, 2009 Under Humour, Methods & Tools, Software Development | 1 Comment
Once upon a time was the “software crisis” that persuaded people to “engineer” software in a 1968 NATO conference. Methods were created to structure the requirements and the software development process. They use models to define more precisely the requirements and the target system. They had a top-down approach that was aimed at increasing management control on projects. The object oriented revolution changed the perspective of the models with the subsequent creation of the UML, but not the industrial vision of the software development process. In 2001, 17 people signed an agile manifesto that tried to push back the balance more on the “people” side. Two of the main value preferences of the manifesto (“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”) are explicitly focused on people and their relationships. Read more
Summer 2009 issue of Methods & Tools
Published June 22nd, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2009 issue’s content:
* Responsibility Driven Design with Mock Objects
* Agile Coding and Testing
* How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure
* Scrum Product Owner Guide
* TDD, FDD and BDD Compared
* Open-Source Messaging Servers
60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from
http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer09