Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
As companies transition to Agile and Scrum to manage their software development projects, how does this affect the work of business analysts? Nancy Nee, VP Global Product Strategy at ESI International, shares her opinion on the role of business analysts in Agile software development projects.
MongoDB is one of the most popular open source NoSQL database available. This database avoids the traditional table-based relational SQL database structure to favor of JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. Jenny Richards explains in this article why MongoDB is a good NoSQL implementation for software development projects.
Have you ever done something where you felt like you were in a higher state of awareness, your focus sharp like a knife, and time seemed to stand still? Imagine you could harness that same feeling in your work, working with your Scrum Team? Even cooler, imagine you could measure...
In SQL Server, the Referential Integrity is governed by the fact that there is a defined primary key that will only ever allow unique values. That primary key is used to establish relationships with other tables. This article shows you how to create primary keys in SQL Server.
AI-assisted software development is gradually making progress in organizations. AI coding or testing tools excel at typing and scaffolding, but they cannot replace software developer thinking. In this presentation, Diana Montalion and Jessica Kerr show how AI can amplify human expertise, but not replace it.
Get a transparent view of Manychat’s optimization journey. This presentation is about sharing successes, failures, and key learnings through small group activities to analyze and reflect on the evolution of their optimization goals over three years, illustrating the impact of these goals on their product strategy and organizational growth.
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...
In a typical website, some element of static reference data exists in the system. This static reference data might never change or might change infrequently. Rather than continually querying for the same data from the database, storing the data in a cache can provide great performance benefits.
Collaborating on deriving scope from goals is undoubtedly the most controversial topic in this book. In the last five years, the surge in popularity of value chains in software development has increased awareness of the idea of collaborating on scope and deriving it from business goals.
Think of the times when you have to collaborate with business units, cross-departmental teams, and other functions. Too often, complex ideas and jargon can impact cross-departmental communication and collaboration effectiveness and efficiency.
In the Agile world, bottom-up continuous improvement is the new mantra that replace the (rarely done) postmortem reviews of traditional project management approaches used in software development.
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