Posts Tagged ‘project management’

Are we ashamed of software testing? (And who is willing to pay for it?) October 13, 2009 1 Comment

Imagine that you run a software consultant shop where you take on projects for customers. The projects cover such areas as new software development; implementations of IT systems; and web site development.
Let’s say that you are about to create a offer for a new project to a customer.
Do you dare to specify the proper amount [...]

Agile vs. agile August 3, 2009 3 Comments

This was originally meant as an answer to the (ironic) thread http://thetesteye.com/blog/2009/06/long-live-the-waterfall/ where a new thread was forked when Ola Janson launched a couple of questions regarding agile development. My answers and thoughts on those questions are listed here.
In one reply to Ola, Rikard says that he has “…never worked in a truly Agile project…” but [...]

Long live the Waterfall June 16, 2009 7 Comments

A cheer to those of you who were able to attend this conferance: http://www.waterfall2006.com/
My favorites:
http://www.waterfall2006.com/crispin.html
http://www.waterfall2006.com/jeffries.html
Thank god everyone is not a believer of the hype around the Agile Movement. Process is king!

Resolved as Not Repro June 9, 2009 8 Comments

Lets say that you have a bug system; and for each bug you have the two fields “State” and “Resolution” where the following values are valid:
State: New, Assigned, Resolved, Closed.
Resolution: Fixed, Invalid, Won’t fix, Duplicate, Not Repro.
Further, you have a field where a product version number should be entered; i.e., the earliest version number of [...]

The subproject chicken race May 6, 2009 No Comments

With subproject I mean when larger project have a need to split the project into minor parts. The essence of a chicken race is “Each player prefers not to yield to the other, the outcome where neither player yields is the worst possible one for both players.”
The goal for the larger project should be to [...]

Project tool – Trac March 17, 2009 No Comments

”Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.”, see http://trac.edgewall.org/
This [...]