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 …
As a software developer, you know that one of the critical period in a project is when you try to make integrate your code in the overall application and push it towards the final user. It is sometimes a long process that you would like to accelerate so that you …
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. …
