Project Mgmt.

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

4 replies - 2065 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

An Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.  It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband...

0 replies - 3626 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2882 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 5607 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

2 replies - 3110 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Exclusive Interview: VP Sue McKinney on IBM's Agile Transformation

If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of...

0 replies - 5818 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8328 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

The Software Sales Pitch - Choosing Wisely

It's a common tale:  Some business need arises for capability your IT department doesn't currently offer but there are multiple commercial alternatives...

5 replies - 2634 views - 02/10/09 by nerdguru in Articles

Improvement as a Developer

I was doing some thinking about areas where I’m lacking as a developer. There are many, but I’ll list a few here.Testing ImprovementsI think I’ve come a...

3 replies - 5249 views - 11/22/08 by Derek Young in Articles

Not Everyone Has the Same Definition of "Done"

Years ago I had an employee, let's call him Vanya (not the real name). He was struggling a bit so I was watching his work closely. Every week we discussed...

1 replies - 4384 views - 09/09/08 by steve.rowe in News

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

Okay... so my writing is slowing down again.

0 replies - 4671 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 5755 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my previous attempt, since I find...

6 replies - 3379 views - 08/14/08 by Ted Neward in Articles

Jira MultiSite: Clustered Issue Tracking for Your Distributed Enterprise

With over 8000 customers, JIRA from Atlassian has quickly become the leading issue tracking and project management application of choice. But IT organizations...

0 replies - 3147 views - 08/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Videos

Tasktop for Eclipse - Get More out of Mylyn

The Tasktop Plug-ins for Eclipse extend the capabilities of Eclipse Mylyn to other aspects of the developer's workweek. In this article we take a brief look at...

0 replies - 17737 views - 08/05/08 by robert.elves@ta... in Articles