Software Best Practices

The agile community has written much about this in the past year or so: Iterative vs Incremental - from the first (and original) Wiki Web The Neglected Practice of Iteratation - by Jeff Patton Difference between Iterative and Incremental Development - nice visual depiction No Waterfall Trap -- an even...

My review of Lean Project Management is in the February 2008 issue of the Agile Journal. Lean Project Management: Eight Principles for Success , is actually a second edition of the eBook Eight Secrets to Supercharge your Project with CCPM . It is available both in hardcopy and eBook formats. Lawrence...

I am still amazed at the number of software managers who are unfamiliar with "The Mythical man-month" lesson that says (paraphrasing here) adding more people to a late project makes it even later. So I decided to round-up some resources on the subject. Here they are: Wikipedia entry on the...

I came across a great set of responses to an IEEE Software Article by Ted Little that seemed to question the cone of uncertainty. Among the respondents were Phillipe Kruchten and Steve McConnell. This prompted me on a search for resources about the cone of uncertainty. Here is what I came up with: The...

From Pete Behrens' Agile Executive Blog , the results to the Agile Tooling Survey they conducted in October are now available online at http://trailridgeconsulting.com/surveys.html : With over 500 survey responses from 39 countries, we feel this survey provides an excellent benchmark for where the...