Software Best Practices

InfoQ.com summarized an email-list discussion thread on the subject of using a Traceability Matrix in an Agile Project . I contributed quite a lot to the thread, and InfoQ apparently included many of the key things I said along with the related URLs to articles I've written. (Thanks guys!)

I recently learned that Michelle Sliger , author of the wonderful 4 part series of articles on Relating PMBoK to Agile Practices , is co-authoring a book with Stacia Broderick entitled the Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility . You can even download an excerpt from her website. I'm looking...

Marry Poppendieck gave a keynote at SQE's Agile Development Practices Conference during the last months of 2007. The slides for that presentation are now available online. The presentation is entitled Welcome to the Mainstream (and How to Fail with Agile) An interesting read!!!

[updated June 1, 2007] CMMI on the surface is definitely not very inviting to Agile. CMMI can be done in an agile fashion however. If CMMI is something you have a need for, then for secrets of how to do it "Agile-style", and details of success stories and lessons learned, take a look at the...

[last update: 27-April-2007] For a colleague at work, I compiled a list of resources covering Lean principles & practices, their integration with Six Sigma and/or Agile development methods, and the application of Lean to software development. I thought others might find it useful, so here it is ...

Lately I've been spending some time thinking about how distill Agile development within my company on a single powerpoint slide for a top-level Executive. I keep going back and forth between something that shamelessly steals (and modifies) something used to describe RUP, and something shamelessly...

Joe Little has authored a nice little booklet on The Elements of Agile Style

The March issue of the Agile Journal is about scaling-agility and agile adoption in the enterprise.

The March issue of The Rational Edge and the April issue of Crosstalk are both devoted to the the theme of Agile Software Development this month!

Interesting paper from Linda Levine and the SEI about Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dillemmas & the Way Ahead (see the corresponding presentation slides ) Some other related documents from the SEI are: Systems of Systems: Scaling Up the Development Process ; by Watts...