Agile, Project Management and Software Testing in Spring 2011 Issue of Methods & Tools
Published March 21st, 2011 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Spring 2011 PDF issue with the following articles:
* Automated Acceptance Tests and Requirements Traceability
* Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods
* User-Centric Design and the Power of Personas
* Complexity Theory for Software Developers
* Build Patterns to Boost your Continuous Integration
* GivWenZen – Behavior Driven Development for FitNesse
* Celoxis – Web Based Project Management
* Tellurium Automated Testing Framework
* Apache CXF
* RSpec Best Practices
* Maven Plugins
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Management 3.0
Published March 14th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
If I tried to summarize what you get from his book, you can consider Jurgen Appelo as the hidden son resulting from a relationship between a Springer Verlag journal’s editor and Mike Cohn, with some influence from Aardman Studios in the education. Jurgen Appelo gives his own assessment of his book at the end, based on the quote that “all models are wrong but some are useful” He says “It makes no sense discussing which idea is wrong, because they all are. The real challenge is in finding which ideas is useful in what context”.
Read the complete review of Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo
Reference: “Management 3.0, Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders”, Jurgen Appelo, Addison-Wesley, 391pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71247-9
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Adaptive Project Framework
Published January 25th, 2011 Under Books | Leave a Comment
As the author says, many project managers prefer to apply an existing recipe for their project. If you are ready to step out of your comfort zone, this book contains many ingredients that will allow you to create your own recipe for to manage software development projects. I strongly recommend this book to every project manager and software development manager that wants to have better tools to manage change.
Read a complete review of Adaptive Project Framework by Robert Wysocki
Reference: “Adaptive Project Framework, Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty”, Robert K. Wysocki, Addison-Wesley, 355 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-52561-1
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Software Linkopedia January 2011
Published January 20th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Blog: Definition of Done: A Reference
Blog: Developers, let the testers assist with the technical debt
Web Site: Refactoring Manifesto
Article. Automated web testing with Selenium
Article: Five Ajax best practices
Tool: Selenium Toolkit for .NET
Tool: BigTuna- Continuous Integration Server
Video: Battle of NoSQL Stars: Amazon’s SDB vs Mongoid vs CouchDB vs RavenDB
Video: Android Application Development – A 9,000 Foot Overview
Video: Mocks Suck (and what to do about it)
Video: Enterprise Scale Scrum Sprint Planning
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Project Management and Project Manager Definitions
Published December 14th, 2010 Under Quotes | Leave a Comment
“One way to simply and intuitively define project management is that it is a set of tools, templates, and processes designed to answer the following six questions:
1. What business situation is being addressed by this project?
2. What do you need to do?
3. What will you do?
4. How will you do it?
5. How will you know you did it?
6. How well did you do?”
“What the client wants is probably not what the client needs. The project manager’s job is to make clients want what they need”
Source: “Adaptative Project Framework, Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty”, Robert K. Wysocki, Addison-Wesley, 355 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-52561-1
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