Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Getting the balance right between often opposite and interconnected forces of decoupling and collaboration, when it comes to deciding on software development team boundaries for happy and effective teams, is as much and art as it is a science.
With DevOps being a state-of-the-art mindset, we find ourselves with autonomous software development teams who can take full ownership and not only develops features but also follow up on their usage, put them in production and fix them when they break.
This presentation examines the global effects that force us to reason differently about how we organize and lead people and projects. It discusses valuable skills for leaders in this new climate, especially leaders in software development teams.
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?
As project managers, we want our software development teams to pursue great ideas and change directions to realize the goals. However, often we find it hard to implement changes.
Traditional project management wisdom teaches us that long-lived, stable teams perform best, and that changing team membership is to be avoided as much as possible. Redgate Software has challenged this advice, believing it was better for software engineers and the overall organization to deliberately change-up our teams every year.
Working in collaborative, self-organizing Agile software development teams can be challenging. It is important that all team members understand the group dynamics involved and how to effectively facilitate these sessions.
This presentation will help you understand the power of multidisciplinary software development project teams, why we are in a place to build them now, and how you might get started.