Three Thinking Gems for Software Development Projects

I have just started reading the book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. You will read the complete review later on this blog, but as the book is full of interesting wisdom from the beginning, I couldn’t …

CMMI: Less Hyped Than Agile but Equally Popular?

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined at what stage is the CMMI approach adoption in software development organizations. Not aware 13% Not using 29% Investigating 8% Analysed and rejected 4% Trying to reach Level 2 12% CMMI Level 2, 3 or 4 20% CMMI Level 5 14% Participants: 392 …

My 10 Favorites Agile Project Management Articles

This is a (personal) list of articles dealing with agile project management, Scrum and Kanban that I like. I have chosen to include material that is longer than the usual (short) blog posting. I encourage readers to give more objectivity to this subjective set by submitting in the comments what …

Fall 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers.  Fall 2008 issue’s content: * Controlling Project Risk by Design * How to Choose Candidates for Large Agile Companies * Outsourcing Software Testing * Managing Scrum Meetings 35 pages of software development knowledge that you can …