Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Lean Software Development



Today, I attended a webinar entitled: "An Agile Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development" hosted by Alan Shalloway, from NetObjectives. Shalloway is a noted expert in applying both Agile and Lean methods to Software Development.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Document Your Assumptions



Today, I attended a webinar entitled: "We Need it By October: What's Your Estimate?" hosted by Tim Lister, from the Atlantic Systems Guild. Lister is a noted expert in Risk Management, having written a book with Tom DeMarco entitled: "Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects".

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Cause of IT Project Failures Unearthed?


As I wrote in a recent posting, Failure is Not an Option, the Standish Group recently published its latest CHAOS report identifying the factors driving success for IT projects (see article "CHAOS Summary 2009").

For those like me who have never worked in IT, it's a bit puzzling to see such high failure rates on projects. So what's going on here?

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