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!)

Nice little guide on InfoQ.com about Distributed Version Control - that's twice in two months that the " agile " section of InfoQ.com has had a decent article on the subject!

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...

Getting back to the subject of my previous blog-entries on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes , I wanted to talk more specifically about the quality attribute of Modifiability . The Modifiability of a software system is related to how minimal is...

A colleague of mine had a question for me about Distributed Versions Control Systems (or DVCS). There are a growing number of such systems these days: Mercurial , Bazaar , git , svk , BitKeeper , Gnu Arch , darcs , Monotone , Codeville , Arx , just to name a few. I referred them to a good essay by David...

Following on to my previous blog-entry about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives , the book " Software Architecture in Practice " also describes a method called Attribute-Driven Design or ADD. This is not yet-another-design-method like BDD or TDD. ADD is concerned software architectural...

I'm fairly interested in the literature on Software Architecture Views and Perspectives. Folks here may remember by work on Dimensions and Views of SCM Architecture as one of the reasons why ... The text of the entire 2nd edition of the " Software Architecture in Practice " textbook is...

For those who haven't been keeping up with "Agile 2.0" or "Post-Agile", one of the more recent developments has been KanBan for Software Development. I first heard about it from David Anderson in a presentation he gave at about a KanBan System for Sustaining Software Engineering...

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!!!

The November 2007 issue of the CM Journal was devoted to the theme of " What Best Practice is Best? " Joe Farah's article on The Top 10 SCM Best Practices was quite possibly the best article on SCM best practices that I've come across to date! Joe actually first lists his top ten "runners...