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Leverage Earned Value Management with Function Point Analysis[presentation] In the Earned Value Management (EVM) approach, as work is performed, it is "earned" on the same basis it was planned-both the original plan and agreed to changes. Today, more and more software projects are using this approach. |
Ian Brown, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Identifying Your Organization's "Best" Practices - A Measured Approach[presentation] Through the application of a rigorous measurement model, which includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis, organizations can identify high impact areas of software development performance. |
David Herron, The David Consulting Group
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Software Project Poker: Should We Keep Betting or Fold?[presentation] Software projects are like stud poker hands-all have great potential at the beginning, additional information becomes available as they progress, and it's hard to remain detached from the emotion of the game. |
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group Inc
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Scrum - The Art of the Possible[presentation] Scrum is an agile, lightweight and team-based process to manage software and product development within iterative software development lifecycles. |
Brad Grant, Charwick
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Avoiding Scheduling Games - A Management View[presentation] Software managers, project leaders, and developers often complain that "Management" sets unreasonable schedules for delivery of software projects. |
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
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A Formula for Successful Peer Reviews[magazine] Peer reviews come highly recommended, but many who try them find they just don't work. Maybe that's because they didn't have the magic ingredients. Find out what could be missing from your peer reviews. |
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Power Plays[magazine] Get the software engineering slant on items from the recent news. |
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Much Ado about Outsourcing[magazine] Turn to The Last Word, where software professionals who care about quality give you their opinions on hot topics. This month, read why one man thinks the US is overreacting to the threat of overseas outsourcing. |
Adam Kolawa
January 10, 2005 |
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What Is Quality, Anyway?[magazine] All year long we've been asking people in every phase of the software development lifecycle to tell us what quality means to them. We found that while most agree on what quality is, there's still controversy over how to achieve it. |
Rebecca Traeger
January 10, 2005 |
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Bringing Joy to Your Job[magazine] We're pleased to bring you technical editors who are well respected in their fields. Get their take on everything that relates to the industry, technically speaking. In this issue, find out how to add a little happiness to your project life. |
Brian Marick
January 10, 2005 |
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What NOT to Test[magazine] When the schedule is tight, testing often gets squeezed. You could gnash your teeth and rail against the unfairness of it all. You could doggedly test until you run out of time. But maybe it would be better to plan for change up front with a flexible, prioritized test plan. Find out how to decide what to leave in and what to leave out. |
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Outsourcing: Twelve Tips to Make Outsourcing Work[magazine] More and more projects are being shipped overseas or outsourced to a contract company nowadays. However, managing an outsourced project is a risky task. Take home twelve hot tips that will help keep your project from getting burned. Ed Weller offers twelve tips to make your outsourcing experience better. |
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TimeLine Postmortems[article] We should use project postmortems to improve our software process. But few teams do, and fewer teams reliably learn from project postmortems. You can introduce postmortems to your team easily with a timeline postmortem process. If you are already doing postmortems, a timeline-based approach may improve your results.
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Seth Morris
January 9, 2005 |
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Not Your Father's Test Automation[article] If you think that test automation is mostly about executing tests, then you're missing out on a big opportunity. Or rather, you're missing a lot of small opportunities adding up to a big one. Consider this: stop thinking about test automation as merely executing automated tests, stop thinking about test automation as something you need expensive tools for, and start discovering automation you can implement in a couple of days and usually with extremely inexpensive tools or tools you already have available. In this week's column, Danny Faught and James Bach suggest taking a more Agile approach to test automation. |
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Alter Your Requirements Process[magazine] Fashioning a new requirements method is an almost impossible task, given budget and time constraints. But that doesn't mean you have to be stuck with an ill-fitting process. Learn about seven alterations that almost any organization can make. |
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