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Software Best Practices Archives

 
August 31, 2010
Function Points in Practice
 
August 17, 2010
What Are Function Points?
 
August 3, 2010
Advanced Software Testing
 
July 20, 2010
Collaboration and Requirements
 
July 6, 2010
Benchmarks and Goals for the Adult Corporate Learner
 
June 22, 2010
Managing by Numbers
 
June 8, 2010
Implementing CMMI and Scrum Together
 
May 25, 2010
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
 
May 11, 2010
Getting Performance From Process Improvement
 
April 27, 2010
A Project Management Primer
 
April 13, 2010
Retrospectives with Large and Distributed Teams
 
March 30, 2010
Becoming a Self-Directed Leader
 
March 16, 2010
Change Does Not Happen
 
March 2, 2010
The Hurly-Burly Hubbub of Change
 
February 16, 2010
Risk Management: What it is; What it was; What it Shall Be
 
February 2, 2010
Seven (+/- Two) Software Measurement Conundrums
 
January 19, 2010
Measuring Up to Metrics
 
January 5, 2010
New Year's Resolutions (for Software Process Improvement)
 
December 22, 2009
What We Can Learn From Lines of Code Data
 
December 8, 2009
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Software Projects
 
November 24, 2009
Successful Software Product Management
 
November 10, 2009
Making Organizational Change Happen
 
October 27, 2009
100 IT Performance Metrics
 
October 13, 2009
Show Me the Money!
 
September 29, 2009
The Decision Model: A Framework for Linking Business and Technology
 
September 15, 2009
Software Testing Automation
 
September 1, 2009
International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG)
 
August 18, 2009
The Timeless Design of Information Systems
 
August 4, 2009
Process Maturity and Performance
 
July 21, 2009
Earned Value Analysis
 
July 7, 2009
Size Does Matter
 
June 23, 2009
New Research in Software Metrics
 
June 10, 2009
IFPUG, Function Points, Stockholm Syndrome
 
May 26, 2009
Measurement, Metrics and Industry Leadership
 
May 12, 2009
Keeping your Organization Competitive During Difficult Times
 
April 28, 2009
How To Create a Successful Failure
 
April 14, 2009
The 7 Principles of Risk Management
 
March 31, 2009
Why Are My Projects Struggling?
 
March 17, 2009
A State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Roberto Meli
 
March 3, 2009
10 Principles for Project Control
 
February 17, 2009
History's Worst Software Bugs
 
February 3, 2009
The 5 Pitfalls of Estimating a Software Project
 
January 19, 2009
Quantifying Soft Factors
 
January 6, 2009
Project Dashboards
 
December 30, 2008
New Ideas in Project Management
 
December 16, 2008
Life In An Organization
 
December 2, 2008
The Art of Software Technology
 
November 18, 2008
Good Software is Hard
 
November 4, 2008
On Time and in Budget?
 
October 21, 2008
Integrating the TSP & CMMI

 

October 7, 2008
Agile Lessons from "I Love Lucy"

 

September 23, 2008
Using Agile Processes with Offshore Development

 

September 9, 2008
Throwing Good Money After Bad

 

August 26, 2008
Alphabet Soup (and other Process Improvement "Do's")

 

August 12, 2008
Top 10 Reasons for Not Doing Requirements

 

July 29, 2008
3 More Software Process Improvement "Do's"

 

July 15, 2008
Profiles of Level 5 CMMI Organizations
 
July 1, 2008
Creating A Metrics Program

 

June 17, 2008
Practical Software Estimation

 

June 3, 2008
7 Truths About Peer Reviews

 

May 20, 2008
Software Project Failure

 

May 6, 2008
Introducing Lean Software Development

 

April 22, 2008
Good Enough Software?

 

April 8, 2008
Future Directions in Process Improvement

 

March 25, 2008
Why Projects Fail

 

March 11, 2008
Suitable Development Processes

 

February 26, 2008
Best Practices Fusion

 

February 12, 2008
Software Under Scrutiny

 

January 29, 2008
Best Practices in Software Configuration Management

 

January 15, 2008
DCG on ITIL

 

January 2, 2008
Managing Outsourcing with Metrics

 

December 18, 2007
Real Business Requirements

 

December 11, 2007
A Personal Commitment to Software Quality

 

December 4, 2007
The Future of Software

 

November 26, 2007
He Wrote the Book on Debugging

 

November 19, 2007
Requirements Risks Drown Software Projects

 

November 12, 2007
More Process Improvement Do's

 

November 6, 2007
Pragmatic Software Testing

 

October 30, 2007
Psychology and Computer Programming

 

October 23, 2007
The End of Software Engineering

 

October 16, 2007
Agile CMMI

 

October 9, 2007
Understanding and Improving Software Productivity

 

September 24, 2007
Why Software Fails

 

September 17, 2007
The Ongoing Revolution in Software Testing

 

September 10, 2007
Project Management Best Practices

 

September 3, 2007
Geriatric Issues of Aging Software

 

August 27, 2007
Executing the Estimate

 

August 20, 2007
Myths & Strategies of Defect Causal Analysis

 

August 13, 2007
Software Measurement for Successful Projects

 

August 6, 2007
50 Questions Every CEO Should Know About Software

 

July 30, 2007
The Risks of Risk Analysis

 

July 23, 2007
The Practical Application of Software Measurement

 

July 16, 2007
Do's and Dont's of Process Improvement

 

July 9, 2007
Better Software Management

 

July 2, 2007
Beth Layman on Measurement Maturity & the CMM/CMMI

 

June 25, 2007
Integrating ITIL and Six Sigma

 

June 18, 2007
25 Years and Thousands of Projects Later

 

June 11, 2007
All About Governance

 

June 4, 2007
Surviving Global Development

 

May 25, 2007
When Good Numbers Go Bad

 

May 21, 2007
COSMIC: The Common Software Measurement Consortium
 
May 14, 2007
A Holistic Framework for Software Estimation

 

May 7, 2007
Risk Analysis

 

April 30, 2007
Software Engineering and Metrics

 

April 23, 2007
The 8 Quality Management Principles

 

April 16, 2007
Defining Short and Usable Processes

 

April 9, 2007
Software Engineering Basics

 

April 2, 2007
16 Critical Software Practices

 

March 26, 2007
16 Best Practices for Software Development Projects

 

March 19, 2007
How Software Estimation Tools Work

 

March 12, 2007
Can You Trust Your Data?

 

March 5, 2007
Why Don't We Practice (What Watts Humphrey Preaches)?

 

February 26, 2007
Will CMMI Certification Help?

 

February 19, 2007
Four Great ITIL Websites

 

February 12, 2007
Agile Will Benefit Application Development (Gartner Report)

 

February 5, 2007
The Word from SEI Europe: An Interview with Dr. Hans Sassenburg

 

January 29, 2007
The 8 Quality Management Principles

 

January 22, 2007
Defining Short and Usable Processes

 

January 15, 2007
Software Engineering Basics

 

January 8, 2007
16 Critical Software Practices

 

January 1, 2007
How to Establish a Software Measurement Program: An Interview with Dr. Vic Basili

 

December 18, 2006
Project Management for Adults: An Interview with Tim Lister

 

December 11, 2006
Five Core Metrics - and More: An Interview with Michael Mah

 

December 4, 2006
Software Productivity Secrets Revealed: An Interview with Dr. Christof Ebert, Director of Process Improvement, Alcatel

 

November 27, 2006
Learning from Agile

 

November 20, 2006
ITIL Understanding and Implementing: A Guide

 

November 13, 2006
Agile vs. Waterfall

 

November 6, 2006
A Survey of Software Process Models

 

October 30, 2006
ITIL Demystified

 

October 23, 2006
Obedience Training for Managers

 

October 16, 2006
All About Agile

 

October 9, 2006
Making Software Measurement Work

 

October 2, 2006
An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Founder of the SEI

 

September 25, 2006
The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management: An Interview with Lawrence Putnam,Software Pioneer

 

September 18, 2006
Achieving Extraordinary ROI - Through Software Measurement and SPI: An Interview with Britain's Grant Rule

 

September 12, 2006
An Interview with Ed Yourdon: International IT Consultant and Author of Death March

 

September 5, 2006
An Interview with Charles Symons: Creator of the Mark II Function Point and Founder, COSMIC
 
August 29, 2006
An Interview with Barbara Kitchenham: Professor of Quantitative Software Engineering
 
August 22, 2006
An Interview with David Garmus: Author and Former IFPUG President
 
August 15, 2006
IT Governance - What Is It Really? An Interview with Jeanne Ross, MIT Sloan School of Management
 
August 7, 2006
An Interview with Steve McConnell, Author of Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
 
August 1, 2006
An Interview with Barry Boehm
 
July 25, 2006
An Interview with Manfred Bundschuh President, German Software Metrics Association (DASMA)
 
July 18, 2006
An Interview with David Herron, Author of Function Point Analysis
 
July 11, 2006
An Interview with Dr. Norman Fenton, Author of Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
 
July 04, 2006
An Interview with Rex Black, author of Critical Testing Processes
 
June 27, 2006
Software Conflict: The Art & Science of Software Engineering
 
June 20, 2006
Estimation Games
 
June 13, 2006
Reducing Bias in Software Project Estimates
 
June 6, 2006
Metrics and The Immature Software Process
 
May 30, 2006
One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers
 
May 23, 2006
More on Six Sigma Software Metrics
 
May 16, 2006
Six Sigma Software Metrics
 
May 9, 2006
The Three Dimensions of Process Improvement
 
May 2, 2006
Capers Jones on The Economics of Software Maintenance
 
April 25, 2006
FedEx and Software Maintenance: An Interview with FedEx Ground CIO Mike Hmel
 
April 18, 2006
Understanding and Managing Your Offshore Risks
 
April 11, 2006
Mastering Software Risk Management Fundamentals
 
April 4, 2006
The Great Game of Risk Management:  An Interview with Robert Charette
 
March 28, 2006
Function Points: What You Need to Know (and Why)
 
March 21, 2006
Ten Software Metrics Traps to Avoid
 
March 14, 2006
12 Steps to Useful Software Metrics -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Linda Westfall
 
March 7, 2006
What the Future Holds for IT -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Howard Rubin
 
February 28, 2006
Do We Really Need Project Management? - A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Don Shafer
 
February 21, 2006
What are Evolutionary (EVO) Development Methods? - A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Tom GIlb
 
February 14, 2006
A Case Study in Software Maintenance
 
February 7, 2006
Combining the CMM and Six Sigma - for Software
 
January 31, 2006
Software Estimation - Perfect Practice Makes Perfect
 
January 24, 2006
Getting Started with the CMMI
 
January 17, 2006
Why Most Training Fails
 

January 10, 2006

What is ITIL (And why should you care?)

 

January 3, 2006

The Balanced Scorecard and IT: Understanding the Connection

 

December 20, 2005

Knowledge Management and Process Improvement: A Union of Two Disciplines

December 13, 2005

Thinking Through Software Estimation -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Clark

 

December 06, 2005

The ROI of Software Process Improvement: A New 36 Month Case Study by Capers Jones

 

November 29, 2005

Software Maintenance is a Solution, Not a Problem -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Robert L. Glass

 

November 15, 2005

The International Software Benchmarking Repository -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Peter Hill

 

November 08, 2005

Ten Software Requirements Traps to Avoid

 

November 01, 2005

Six Sigma + IT: Convergence and Integration

 

October 26, 2005

Managing IT at the DoD -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Paul Strassmann, former DoD CIO

 

October 18, 2005

The ROI of Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success

 

October 11, 2005

Software Risk Management 101: Basic Guidelines and Practical Tips for Taking Action

 

October 04, 2005

Software Process Traps - A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Karl E. Wiegers

 

September 26, 2005

Using Metrics to Maximize Software Quality - A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Stephen Kan of IBM

 

September 21, 2005

Reaping What You Sow: How to Get the Most Out of Software Metrics

 

September 13, 2005

How Six Sigma Applies to Software Development and IT -  A CAI State of the Practice Interview wth Gary Gack

 

September 06, 2005

Software Estimation: What You Can Do To Make a Difference TODAY!

 

August 31, 2005

Standard Software Processes: 3 Easy Pieces for Getting You Started!

 

August 23, 2005

A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Tom Love, CEO and Author of Software Pilots

 

August 17, 2005

A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Capers Jones, Chief Scientist Emeritus of SPR

 

August 10, 2005

A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Joseph McMakin, former CIO of Air Products and Chemicals

 

August 3, 2005

A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Herb Krasner, University of Texas and Krasner Consulting

 

July 27, 2005

A CAI State of the Practice Interview with Dr. Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan School of Management

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