- Project Management for IT Pros: An Interview with Rita Mulcahy
- Jan 4, 2010
- Tim Warner interviews Rita Mulcahy about her new Cisco Press book, how an IT executive makes sense of the often-confusing world of PM certifications, and how an IT decision maker can identify and avoid the most common PM pitfalls.
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- Project Planning for Successful Software Development
- Apr 19, 2002
- The software industry may never mature into the lucrative and diverse industry that we would all like it to become. But that doesn't have to be the future. Tyson Gill tells you why we should be focusing on the production of a simple but effective software blueprint during the project-planning phase.
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- Recruiting The Best Talent For Your Software Development Team
- Oct 26, 2001
- Finding and selecting the right candidates for software development is much like buying a car. You have to know the right places to look, understand precisely what you want, and weed out the lemons.
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- Retaining the Best Talent for Software Development
- Oct 26, 2001
- You found the right software developer. Now you have to get him onboard - hang onto him once you've got him.
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- Software Development Has Always Been Difficult
- Oct 26, 2001
- Most software - even if it was slapped together - requires a follow-up commitment of effort and dollars. That's why good software and its supporting architectures require significant planning and careful execution.
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- Software Teamwork: Flexibility and Rigor
- Dec 28, 2007
- Follow these guidelines to ensure that your software development approach will truly help get the job done.
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- Successfully Transitioning Developers
- Nov 2, 2001
- When you move to a new technology, will you retrain your current application developers, or hire new ones? Training and transition is generally far less costly than starting over.
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- Ten Commandments of Successful Software Development
- Oct 12, 2001
- While not inscribed in stone tablets, these rules provide detailed suggestions on how to streamline and improve your software development organization for greater success.
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- The CMMI Concept
- May 28, 2004
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- The Implications of Software Craftsmanship
- Mar 1, 2002
- By replacing the traditional software engineering metaphor with software craftsmanship, we open a whole new realm of possibilities for the software development community.
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- The Project Manager’s Personal Bridge to Agility
- Aug 4, 2008
- Moving to Agile project management is scary. Stacia Broderick eases the transition.
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- The Software Life Cycle
- Nov 9, 2001
- If your software starts with coding and ends with compile, it will probably die young. For a longer lifespan, try the steps in this article.
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- The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility: Scope Management
- May 21, 2008
- Agile project management can help you plan for and handle changes in a project's scope.
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- Trends in Software Economics
- Apr 8, 2009
- This rise in predictability of software project management has allowed the emergence of cost estimation techniques, which the authors discuss in this introduction to their book.
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- Upgrading Software Development Security
- Apr 5, 2002
- Information security expert Scott Barman discusses how to create a secure development program within an existing software development process. Organizations such as Microsoft may need to consider such policies in their heightened concentration on security.
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- Visualization: How to Present Security Data to Get Your Point Across
- Dec 21, 2007
- Learn how to present security data in a style that truly gets your point across.
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- What is a Death March Project and Why Do They Happen?
- Feb 6, 2004
- What is a death march project? What makes IT organizations create such things? Why would anyone in his right mind agree to participate in such a project? Ed Yourdon explains how you might find yourself in such a mire.
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- What to Do When … Checklists for System Administrators
- Nov 16, 2007
- This compendium of checklists for sysadmins will help you do anything better.
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- Why Do CMMI Assessments?
- Jun 3, 2005
- This chapter introduces the basics of CMMI Assessments, outlining the benefits and improvements that can be reaped by their implementation.
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- Why Every Business Is a Software Business
- Feb 22, 2002
- Watts Humphrey explains that unless you make some changes in the way your software work is done, your current problems will likely get much worse.
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