Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
“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...
This blog post presents the main principles of time management in the case of agile software development.
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” by William Echlin presents the project management activities in open source projects and compare them to the needs of commercial projects.
This post presents a personal list of articles dealing with agile project 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...
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.
An very deep and interesting discussion on an article about motivation in project management and how it is perceived by project managers.