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 …

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

Methods & Tools is proud to be the media partner of many good software development conferences. Here is a list of the upcoming conferences that we support:
* Better Software Conference & Expo, June 8-12 2009, Las Vegas, USA
* Code Generation 2009, June 16-18 2009, Cambridge, UK
* Integrating Agile Conference, June 18 2009, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
* International SPICE Days, June 22-24 2009, Stuttgart, Germany
* Jazoon’09, June 22-25 2009, Zurich, Switzerland
* Eclipse Time 2009, June 23-24 2009, Toulouse, France
* ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysts, June 24-26 2009, Baltimore, USA
* Conference of …

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Anna Fors gave me the opportunity to host “Confessions of a Serial Product Owner” on DevAgile.com. This free e-book is a short guide to a business person aiming for becoming an excellent Scrum product owner. A further iteration of the experiences of Anna as a product owner will be published in the next edition of Methods & Tools.