Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
December 24, 2007
Peopleware asserts that most software development projects fail because of failures within the team running them. This strikingly clear, direct book is written for software development-team leaders and managers, but it's filled with enough commonsense... Read more...
Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
December 24, 2007
Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management#151;and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of... Read more...
Doing Stupid Things on Purpose?
December 8, 2007
We had a banner over the door way at our nuclear weapons plant decommissioning project. Don't so stupid things on purpose This banner was meant to remind all those working on the decommissioning of the plant not to "do stupid things - period." Least... Read more...
Managing a megaservice - Keep it simple!
January 15, 2006
In a Conversation with Phil Smoot, product unit manager in Microsofts MSN division, Phil discusses large-scale megaservice Hotmail. BF Heres the ultimate open-ended question: If you were to talk to someone who was about to walk into a situation... Read more...