Adaptive Project Management Using Scrum
The article “Adaptive Project Management Using Scrum” by Craig Murphy provides a basic overview of Scrum, an agile process for managing software development project.
Category: Software Development Project Management Articles
The Value of a Plan
“When we “plan”, we expect the actual project result to conform to that plan, and then deviations become team mistakes or sign of the team’s failure to work enough. When we “speculate”, we take the opposite perspective – it’s the plan we suspect was wrong. The plan, or speculation, is...
10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management
This blog post presents the main principles of time management in the case of agile software development.
The Upside of Downsizing: Using Scrum and User Stories to Scale Down a Project
The article “The Upside of Downsizing” describes how a project was successfully downsized from 100 to 12 developers. To make such a dramatic adjustment the development process was switched to Scrum and user stories.
Running an Open Source Software Project
“Running an Open Source Software Project” by William Echlin presents the project management activities in open source projects and compare them to the needs of commercial projects.
My 10 Favorites Agile Project Management Articles
This post presents a personal list of articles dealing with agile project management.
Cox’s risk matrix theorem and its implications for project risk management
One of the standard ways of characterizing risk on projects is to use matrices which categorize risks by impact and probability of occurrence. These matrices provide a qualitative risk ranking in categories such as high, medium and low. Tony Cox shows that the qualitative risk ranking provided by a risk...
Quantified Objectives: A Fundamental Advance in Managing Software Development Projects
The article Quantified Objectives: A Fundamental Advance in Managing Software Development Projects by Stuart James Woodward describes the Evolutionary Project Management. Evo is a project management process delivering evolutionary ‘high-value-first’ progress towards the desired goals.