Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Good requirements are the foundation of software development projects. It is more important to “do the right thing” than to “do things right”. The book “So You Want To Be A Scrum Master?” discusses the impact of poor requirements in software development and why people are the main issue.
Nowadays, it is pretty hard to find an application that doesn’t have a data flow that depends on external services, such as databases, queues or caches. We could also include API services in the mix, if it is a third-party service.
Getting the balance right between often opposite and interconnected forces of decoupling and collaboration, when it comes to deciding on software development team boundaries for happy and effective teams, is as much and art as it is a science.
This article contains a selected list of free and open source project management software tools that can be used to manage software development projects. The features provided by traditional open source project management tools are the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the Gantt and PERT charts, Critical Path Management (CPM) to...
With DevOps being a state-of-the-art mindset, we find ourselves with autonomous software development teams who can take full ownership and not only develops features but also follow up on their usage, put them in production and fix them when they break.
Why should we keep software soft? Because software should be easy to change. This is how this book from Jason Roberts starts. In the first page of the book Keeping Software Soft – A Practical Guide for Developers, Testers, and Managers, he writes “If you want to make developing software...
In the day-to-day activities of software development project managers, you learn how to manage code, machines, and processes, collaborate with our colleagues, deal with clients, and comply with requests from our company and managers.
JavaScript is the backbone of modern web development, bringing interactivity and dynamism to websites and applications. With its versatility, JavaScript has become a go-to language for developers, enabling them to create a wide range of practical tools and applications.
Do you think in pictures? If so, you are part of 65% of people who are visual learners. In Agile project management, we have a lot of complex concepts that we need to understand and explain to others. Sketchnoting or visual summaries can help you learn more effectively, retain information...
The speed of Generative AI adoption means it is now used in almost all areas of enterprise. Services like transcribing or content creation are perhaps the most widely known applications given that anybody can use them and tools like these are department agnostic. But Generative AI is also exerting considerable...
This presentation examines the global effects that force us to reason differently about how we organize and lead people and projects. It discusses valuable skills for leaders in this new climate, especially leaders in software development teams.
