Archives by Tag 'management'
My first experiences on a Scrum team
I moved to a new job recently, which applies agile methodologies to manage software teams, particularly Scrum, which was adopted to make an effective management of price, estimates, task and resources. It’s my first experience working with an agile process and I’m no doubt it brings a lot of values for a software project.
The Scrum [...]
How Hard Could It Be? Five Easy Ways to Fail
Pedro da Ros has pointed me an interesting article from Joel Spolsky about ways software projects go wrong. Five Easy Ways to Fail shows us five step-guide to ensure software failure:
Mistake No. 1: Start with a mediocre team of developers
Mistake No. 2: Set weekly milestones
Mistake No. 3: Negotiate the deadline
Mistake No. 4: Divide tasks equitably
Mistake [...]
Thinking Iterative, but doing Waterfall development
Some companies think they’re applying iterative and incremental development, but in practice are doing waterfall development. Here are some tips described in Applying UML and Patterns, by Craig Larman, which can help you discover if your company doesn’t understand the Unified Process and iterative development (these tips can clarify all stakeholders misunderstanding about the difference [...]
FastTrack – Free Tracker plugin for Eclipse
For those interested in project management stuff, like issue tracking, team collaboration and other team planning resources, there is a free Eclipse plugin called Tracker, which is intended ( I didn’t have time to test it yet ) to manage team development stuff inside Eclipse IDE. It provides, among other things (which I [...]