Project Mgmt.

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 - 2853 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

How To Correctly Sandbag Your Estimates

All to often I hear this phrase during an estimation meeting: I think it’s about 20 hours, but let’s say 24 to fudge it a little… Estimating this way...

0 replies - 946 views - 03/31/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

The Curious Case of Software Quality

Most likely you have heard about the recent debate on technical blogosphere about the importance of software quality in software development cycle. There are...

0 replies - 1500 views - 02/16/09 by keyvan in News

We Don't Have Requirements Yet, But How Long Will This Take You?

I function as an EA and project manager, but not both roles at the same time because it's way too insane to try to do both simultaneously. All PMs I work with...

0 replies - 5313 views - 02/05/09 by rmcilree in News

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

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

0 replies - 4668 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News

Agile Project Status Reporting

A little while ago I wrote about agile project management and how agile

0 replies - 3501 views - 09/02/08 by Kelly Waters 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 - 5752 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

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 - 3139 views - 08/10/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Videos

The Undercover Adventure (Part 3): Sometimes it’s like trying to appreciate the “squareness” of a peg with round thinking.

When I initially started at the mine around 3 months ago I never anticipated that this industry would have as many acronyms as the IT industry. I was wrong. My...

2 replies - 2420 views - 07/29/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.

I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in front of...

6 replies - 2664 views - 07/21/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!

After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was time to...

10 replies - 3244 views - 07/15/08 by AnneBotha in Articles