Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
This talk highlight the view of cognitive psychologists on software developer productivity and developer experience. It aims to help developers and tech managers in their decisions about communication, people and processes, providing them with a short and useful theoretical framework taken from social and organizational psychology.
So instead of looking for ways to make team formation possible, we began to think of ways to make it impossible. That was easy. In no time at all, we came up with lots of surefire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken...
A Gantt chart is a type of chart that shows the schedule of a software development project. Gantt charts show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status. They provide a big picture of the plan and the realization of projects, including the critical path. This chart was...
In this presentation, Dave Farley explores ideas to build better software faster. With examples from software and other industries, he illustrates each of 10 ideas that when combined can be used to form the basis of a modern, agile, engineering approach to software development. This video also answers the question...
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.
Modern software development approaches like Agile and Scrum support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to...
In a world of distributed systems, microservices, and fast-paced deployments, integration failures are still a leading cause of production issues. End-to-end tests are often too slow, flaky, and expensive to be your safety net.
If you are a software development project manager, you know that communication and trust in the project team are as important for the success as the technical challenges. This excerpt from a blog of Keavy McMinn gives an interesting insight on how to build trust.
Roman Zhukov (Red Hat) & Damian Brady (GitHub) discusses on the challenges and best practices of AI coding: faster≠better. Software developers need education, security practices and human oversight. AI amplifies, but it does not replace coding capabilities.
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...
A SQL Server stored procedure, sometimes referred to as a stored proc or procedure, allows you to write one or more TSQL statements and store them within your database so that they can be called over and over again without having to write that code aagain. This article shows you...
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