Software development knowledge and experience report
There are many configurations for developers to work together, but one of the common things that you will share with your colleagues is the toilet. Visiting the lavatories is also something that you will most likely to do every day. You could think of this as an intimate and mandatory …
The trend towards globalization well known in the software development world, because either we work with colleagues with a different cultural background or part of our projects are outsourced in another country. Using his experience in a large multinational company, Jean Binder has produced an excellent book on the topic …
Software maintenance is an important part of the software development activity, but it is also the less discussed. As an example of its relative importance, you could just compare the space occupied by “software maintenance” and “test driven development” in Wikipedia (and I have nothing against TDD). Furthermore, software maintenance …
Creating the interface for a Web site is not always an easy task. Besides the questions of size and colours, you have to deal with many technologies like HTML, JavaScript or CSS style sheets, without taking into account specific languages like Flash. Then you have to find a solution that …
Rest In Peace (from Latin requiescat in pace) is a sentence that typically appears on christian tombstones. Software development projects have usually the same destiny. Once they are finished, often the best thing that will happen is a little celebration for the project team. Nobody will formally look back at …
In this issue you will find an article on how to measure the progress of your agile projects, a framework for the transition to lean configuration management, practical advice on how to implement retrospectives at the end of you software development projects and a presentation of Microsoft’s Software Factories concept. …
