Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
In this blog post, Gary Reynolds explains why the traditional appraisal systems (performance reviews, 360 feedback, evaluations) are in conflict with Agile values because they focus on the individual and not on the teamwork. The challenge is that individuals within an organization expect and deserve feedback on their performance, thus...
This video presents the social contract. It contains a set of rules a team agrees to, that are above and beyond what their basic project roles and responsibilities mandate. It consolidates everyone’s understanding of how the team will behave and interact. The contract can differ from project to project.
This video provides a six-minute introduction to Scrum by Roman Pichler.
This video explores the interlocking roles in Agile software development projects: Agile Coach, Product Owner and Agile Manager.
Along with a menagerie of problems, the vast majority of so-called “Agile Coaches” are unconsciously incompetent with respect to adopting and transitioning to Agile and a wider toolkit is called for in many situations. But there’s hope: we can change our outlook and learn the tools at hand to turn...
Jeff Sutherland explains in this video that the Burndown Chart is intended to monitor the simultaneous agile development methods going on within a Scrum team. Like a fighter plane landing, there is no room for error, and the chart is intended to monitor such issues.
This video focuses on answering the following questions: * How staged release software results in increased profit, lower capital investment and faster project break even. * How Agility enables delivery of value while managing inherent project unpredictability * How using an interactive approach, the business priorities are the main topic...
The article “Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods” presents several symptoms and causes of schedule problems, describes metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and proposes Agile approaches to mitigate these risks.