Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
I’ve had many conversations recently that have me looking at a crucial question that impacts neurodivergent corporate employees and their project managers: how do we understand, encourage, measure, nurture, and assess the career development of neurodivergent people?
When you start reading the book “The Economics of Iterative Software Development”, you quickly understand that the authors are affiliated with IBM. This is nothing wrong per se, but this seems to influence too much the vision that the book proposes, ignoring approaches proposed by others.
I must admit that I was initially a little bit skeptical on a book about agility coming out from IBM. I was wrong. Although you will find a little bit of “bigblueness” in the content, I really enjoy reading “The Jazz Process” that proposes a deep and interesting perspective on...
The book “Managing the Unmanageable” starts with the observation that software development projects have always difficulties to be successful, which might explain the title of this book. The authors share in it some techniques and approaches to improve this situation, based on their long experience as software development managers in...
Sometimes, it is not possible to keep a team member who is causing problems for your software development project. In their book “Managing the Unmanageable”, Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty provides advice to the project manager on how to dismiss a person who is not performing well or who demonstrates...
Certifications are helpful to improve professional careers. Various business analysis and software requirements organizations exist that offers both a community for sharing knowledge and certifications opportunities, similarly than the Project Management Institute provides for project management domain with its PMP program.
Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic is a book that provides a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. This book about software requirements is based on the research of 30 teams that implemented 50 projects.
The book “Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself” is composed of papers previously written by Watts Humphrey about people and management aspects of software project management.