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"Regardless of software process management type (waterfall, scrum, iterative etc.), there are some main rules which should be considered about software process management."

Really, a few time management principles can do our life successful and improve software and web development to profitable and fascinating levels.

"One of the things I like most about working in software development is the fact the for the most part you get to work with fairly intelligent people. I've always wondered why so many smart people manage their career so poorly."

gidsen | 19 jul 2012 | Anja de Crom | De beste ict-bestuurders van 2012 reageren op 7 stellingen. Vandaag: maatwerksoftware is onnodig duur. Ron Augustus, service director Microsoft : "Dat hoeft niet zo te zijn. Hoewel maatwerk zoveel mogelijk voorkomen moet worden, is het soms noodzakelijk om aan bedrijfsspecifieke eisen te voldoen.

NuGet is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuGet is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible.

"Visual Studio 2012 has a great new Test Explorer.  The Test Explorer is where you see the results of your unit tests.  In Update 1 it has been extended, and you can now organize and filter the test runs based on several conditions, among them your Projects, and Traits."

TechEd Europe 2012: maybe not the most professional of talks, but it gets the point across of how to do estimation and project management using Scrum.

Some time ago, the development team at my firm staged a revolt against the sales team and senior management: our demand was that no Statement of Work was to be sent to a customer without first being reviewed by a member of the development team. [..] Today I would like to explore an important aspect of any Statement of Work: the pricing model.

"While Scrum's primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting Agile principles, or it may be something that your team evolves to, when Scrum isn't enough. I invite you to read my team's story, and how we evolved from Scrum to a more Lean-ish development process."

"Recommendation: Go for the lightweight Factory Delegate approach. As with all patterns, use with caution and watch for overuse & abuse. In particular, if you need to manage state between multiple delegate, fall back to the overriding approach, because you can keep the state in the subclass."

A series of six articles desribing each of the five SOLID principles used for dependency management in object-oriented design and programming. When followed, these principles can enhance the maintainability of software.

Perhaps interesting after today's meeting...

"As soon as you have more than a trivial set of tasks you'll need a better system than a simple list and for agile teams, we have Scrum's product backlog."