Software Best Practices

Glass leverages Fact 6 on this one. Because developers don't work through the learning curve of new tools they don't see the productivity gains and quick using the tool. Often this is because so many projects are schedule driven and its common for people in a stressful situation to revert back...

Software developers talk a lot about tools. They evaluate quite a few, buy a fair number, and use practically none.

Patience and evaluating the value are key for me. So often projects, or milestones, are totally focused on schedule. If the tool doesn't decrease time or increase the amount of features in a release right away then people still work the old way if they can. The never really get in depth experience...

As i stated in another forum , if you have money to spend and are doing agile development, Rally has set the bar that everyone else should be measured against.

Hey thollis, Hands down, the best product out there for this is Rally . Spend 2 hours with their free (10 user) community edition and you will know what Agile Project Managment should be like. The only issue is the price. The are asking $39 / user / month for their middle range SaaS offering, and $65...

The folks over at SmartBear software have written a nice little book entitled The Best Kept Secrets of Code Reviews . It's free if you go over to their webpage and ask for it (you have to fill out a registration form, and it takes a few weeks to arrive, but they havent spammed me at all since I registered...

Every January at CMCrossroads.com the CM Journal focuses on CM predictions for the coming year. My contribution for this year is Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward where I reflect on the previous two years' predictions and update them just a bit, with lots of emphasis on Rational...

Just received two new books about version-control tools: Essential CVS, 2nd edition , by Jennifer Vesperman [See the sample online chapter containing the CVS quickstart guide] Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System , by Jamil Azher [See the online sample chapter on "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...