Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
“We regularly coach groups that ask, “How can we calculate how many people we will need?” Our suggestion is, “Start with a small group of great people, and only grow when it really starts to hurt.” That rarely happens.” “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organizational Tools for...
One of the earliest changes we tried out that got the agile snowball rolling was estimating using points rather than hours or days (or weeks…). Estimating in points though is a weird thing. It doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense at first. It’s really quite hard to explain...
The article “Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork” by Gautam Ghosh presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team composed of the different participants of agile projects.
International Project Management Association or IPMA® is a world leading non-profit making project management organisation. IPMA represents more than 50 project management associations from all continents of the world.
This post presents what is successful project management and reasons for the popularity of Scrum.
PRINCE2 is a generic, tailorable, simple to follow project management method. It covers how to organise, manage and control your projects. It is aimed at enabling you to successfully deliver the right products, on time and within budget.
“Self-organizing teams are at the core of the agile management, but the concepts have become corrupted – and counterproductive – in parts of the agile community. Although self-organizing is a good term, it has, unfortunately, contingent within the agile community who encourage an anarchistic management style and have latched onto...
“Estimating With Use Case Points” describes the process to measure the size of an application modeled with UML, using use case points.