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- Agile Project Management Boot Camp
- Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsAgile Software Development methods differ significantly from traditional plan-based approaches, affecting how projects are planned and managed. In this Boot Camp, you'll walk through...
- Tags: Project Management, PMBOK, Agile
- Training 2008-04-01
- Agile is cool!
- Agile is cool!Why most IT projects fail...and how agile can helpthis excellent blog post gives the reasons WHY agile principles can help: http://kw-agiledevelopment.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-most-it-projects-fail-and-how-agile.html
- Tags: Blogging, Agile
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Agile is cool!
- Holy cow, look at the principles underlying agile software development. Be still, my beating heart, because this stuff is great: Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software Working software is delivered frequently weeks rather than months Working...
- Tags: Software, Agile, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Agile evils, the software crisis, and other interesting stories
- Agile evils, the software crisis, and other interesting storiesThanks.Great video.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software crisis, Agile, software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wall
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wallSaaS is for Agile OrganizationsI think SaaS winds up being the moral equivalent of Agile Programming. There are certainly a lot of similarities that your post has made me think about:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/saas-limits-over-engineering-too-by-forcing-agile-development/Cheers,BW
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Construction, SAP SRM, Agile, software-as-a-service, wall, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business
- Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications businessIBM and Agile? hahahaI read a white paper on the IBM site about Agile where they recommend against using the virtual file system. In the same breath they talk about the difficulties of using developer branches, limiting the use of Multi-site technology,...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, IBM Corp., Telelogic acquisition, Telelogic, applications business, Agile, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Oracle buying Agile – Is it Time to Rethink PLM?
- Here's the skinny on Oracle's acquisition of Agile: PLM is a three-letter acronym that has never lived up to its reputation as hot number either across the enterprise or in the eyes of the investment community. That hasn't stopped companies like Siemens from recently paying a pretty euro to buy...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization features
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization featuresDOAntAgileAgile programming supports the move Microsoft just made. For old timers who haven't been exposed to this notion, software development no longer involves prototypes which may or may not be utilized in an actual product but rather involves functional code that may not be fully featured....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Utility computing, Storage management, Agile Programming, Running Process, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, Viridian, Agile, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Develop more secure software without sacrificing rapidity: Integrate the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) with Agile methods
- To date, there is very little guidance for development teams wanting to augment Agile methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, with security discipline. After meeting with Agile proponents, the authors of The Security Development Lifecycle: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software conclude that most of the...
- Tags: Software, Method, Microsoft Press, Agile, Security
- Book chapters 2006-09-13
Additional Resources
- Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere
- Ed Bott is the picture of PC bliss. He got a crapware free Sony laptop and you'd think the guy is in heaven. Ed writes: For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of...
- Tags: Revenue, Sony Corp., PC, PC Company, Manufacturer, Ed, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Sony's amazing crapware-free PC
- Sony is finally taking on its crapware problem. For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of it. The best part of all was that this machine was absolutely, completely, unequivocally crapware-free, which meant I was able to...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Option, Fresh Start Program, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone
- General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE's 'SupportCentral' collaboration...
- Tags: Backbone, General Electric Co., SupportCentral, Collaboration, Groupware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashups
- IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashupsEnough propaganda and anyone...can be a believer.Enterprise IT is turning into a bloated money pit. Good for the person selling the story, bad for the one buying it.Did someone say IT failures? Expect more. IT departments need to get...
- Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Groupware, Enterprise IT, Web 2.0, Web, information technology, accounting system, IT-departments, collaboration, mashup
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- A time and need for service innovation, education
- The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...
- Tags: services, IBM
- News items 2008-07-10
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- The view from the trenches...
- Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...
- Tags: Software, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Silo, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?
- The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...
- Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Social project management?
- Social project management?Culture MattersI like the idea of social project management & it is very close to the sort of thing we've been doing in the agile space for ages. However, it is very hard to use those kind of social & collaborative techniques unless the corporate environment is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Team management, Social Project
- Discussion threads 2008-06-21
- Google reports cause of App Engine failure
- Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...
- Tags: beta, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Continuous prototyping
- Continuous prototypingFavourite "agile" tricksOne of the ideas in web development that holds true in this context is to get the user "building" as much as possible. A lot of the back and forth stuff disappears when the user is psychologically involved in the process - ie, if they actually chose...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Continuous Prototyping, Demming, software development
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
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