Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
“The tendency to resort to groupthink can be exacerbated by a team’s tendency to self-select likeminded people and get rid itself of people who don’t think like the rest of the team. It’s important to find a workable balance between strong individual talents and team-centric collaboration, and to ensure that...
This post provides an interesting perspective on the skills of people that would like to have in your project teams.
This blog post takes the classical project management triangle (deadline, price, quality) equation to the people side of project management.
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:
When an organization starts to explore Scrum, there’s often an uncomfortable moment early on when someone points out that the role of “manager” seems to be missing entirely. “Well I guess we’ll have to just get rid of ‘em all!” wisecracks one of the developers, and all the managers in...
This article contains a list of resources about the most valuable positions in a software development team. The original content mentioned had disappeared, so you will find below another list of resources about the how to form the best software development teams and what are the roles involved.
The Core Protocols are our ‘best practices’ for people, teams of people and organizations that want to get great results – all the time.
The two common pitfalls that organizations encounter when implementing best practices are: 1. Lack of adaptation: this refers to a situation in which best practices are applied without customizing them to an organization’s specific needs. 2. Lack or adoption: this to the tendency of best practice initiatives to fizzle out...