Project Management for Software Development

Making it Big in Software

Project Management Planet — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:30:29 +0000

You can read on the back cover of the “Making it Big in Software” book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software development career: the best way to get hired, move up, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than software...

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Seven Habits of a Mostly Successful Software Project Team

Project Management Planet — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:17:09 +0000

This presentation shares stories from the trenches—what worked, what failed, and you should never do again in a software development project team. If you have ever wondered how to build a team that doesn’t just survive but thrives, this talk gives you concrete ideas to take back to your project...

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Attitude vs Knowledge in Software Development Projects

Project Management Planet — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:29:19 +0000

In her article for the Summer 2016 issue of Methods & Tools, “Hiring for Agility,” Nadia Smith suggested considering an interesting difference between the need to recruit for “Agile”, defined as the knowledge and experience of Agile practices, and to recruit for “agility”, defined as attitude, values and behavior. Without...

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3 Words Driving Software Developer Productivity & Motivation

Project Management Planet — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:56:27 +0000

This talk highlight the view of cognitive psychologists on software developer productivity and developer experience. It aims to help developers and tech managers in their decisions about communication, people and processes, providing them with a short and useful theoretical framework taken from social and organizational psychology. This presentation uncovers how...

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Killing Softly Your Software Development Project Team With…

Project Management Planet — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:31:03 +0000

So instead of looking for ways to make team formation possible, we began to think of ways to make it impossible. That was easy. In no time at all, we came up with lots of surefire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken...

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Commercial & Free Online Gantt Charts Editors

Project Management Planet — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:00:27 +0000

A Gantt chart is a type of chart that shows the schedule of a software development project. Gantt charts show the dependency relationships between activities and the current schedule status. They provide a big picture of the plan and the realization of projects, including the critical path. This chart was...

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Build Better Software Faster with Modern Software Engineering

Project Management Planet — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:05:07 +0000

In this presentation, Dave Farley explores ideas to build better software faster. With examples from software and other industries, he illustrates each of 10 ideas that when combined can be used to form the basis of a modern, agile, engineering approach to software development. This video also answers the question...

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The Role of Business Analysts in Agile Software Development

Project Management Planet — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:52 +0000

As companies transition to Agile and Scrum to manage their software development projects, how does this affect the work of business analysts? Nancy Nee, VP Global Product Strategy at ESI International, shares her opinion on the role of business analysts in Agile software development projects. She explains their relationships with...

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Reviewing Software Requirements for Testability

Project Management Planet — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:18:42 +0000

Modern software development approaches like Agile and Scrum support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to...

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Executable Agreements: Code, Collaborate and Deploy with Confidence

Project Management Planet — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:11:20 +0000

In a world of distributed systems, microservices, and fast-paced deployments, integration failures are still a leading cause of production issues. End-to-end tests are often too slow, flaky, and expensive to be your safety net. This presentation introduces contract testing with Pact as a practical, scalable alternative that lets teams define...

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