Creating Awareness
Description : One of the good things about presenting at the ACCU conference is what you learn there. Allan Kelly reviews the results of his last conference talk.
Category: [ Project Management | Process Topics | Overload Journal #82 - Dec 2007 ]

Blue-White-Red, an Example Agile Process
Description : When it comes to running a project, one size rarely fits all, but Allan Kelly finds that tailoring a core idea over time has led to repeated success.
Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #81 - Oct 2007 ]

Live and Learn with Retrospectives
Description : How can a team learn from experience? Rachel Davies presents a powerful technique for this.
Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #79 - Jun 2007 ]

Continuous Integration with CruiseControl.Net
Description : Is CC any good? How could it be better? Did it make a real difference where it was installed? Should we all give it a go?
Category: [ Programming Topics | Process Topics | Overload Journal #79 - Jun 2007 ]

Managing Technical Debt
Description : Software projects often cut corners in the rush to meet deadlines, resulting in bad code. Tom Brazier helps us to budget the cost of "doing it wrong".
Category: [ Project Management | Overload Journal #77 - Feb 2007 ]

Up Against the Barrier
Description : A discussion of development against the odds, describing process, personal and environmental barriers between the people and the job they are trying to do.
Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #75 - Oct 2006 ]

The Documentation Myth
Description : Allan Kelly suggests that we don't invest more in documentation for a reason: that it isn't as valuable as we claim.
Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #74 - Aug 2006 ]

Pair Programming Explained
Description : Rachel Davies explains how to implement pair programming and why it can be an effective practice for programmers.
Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #73 - Jun 2006 ]

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot. In an Agile Way.

Category: [ Process Topics | Overload Journal #71 - Feb 2006 ]

The Agile Manifesto Explained (and a First Amendment)
Description :

In my last article I set the scene for what I hope will be a series of provocative and informative articles. In the article I described the plight of Pete and his vain efforts to change development processes at his place of work.

Source : agile development
Category: [ Project Management | CVu Journal Vol 17, #5 - Oct 2005 ]

Setting up a Subversion Server for Remote Use
Description :

Revision control is a critical part of any significant development project. Having secure full time access to your repository from wherever you are can be important. In some environments, such as open source projects, it's absolutely crucial to the functioning of the development team.

Category: [ Project Management | CVu Journal Vol 17, #5 - Oct 2005 ]

Editorial: Size Does Matter
Description : The way that one goes about developing and delivering a software project depends critically on the scale of the project.
Discuss.
Category: [ Project Management | Overload Journal #68 - Aug 2005 | Journal Editorial ]

Becoming and Being Agile

Category: [ Project Management | CVu Journal Vol 17, #4 - Aug 2005 ]

Software Project Management: Adding Stakeholder Metrics to Agile Projects
Description : Agile methods need to include stakeholder metrics in order to ensure that projects focus better on the critical requirements, and that projects are better able to measure their achievements, and to adapt to feedback. This paper presents a short, simple defined process for evolutionary project management (Evo), and discusses its key features.
Category: [ Project Management | Overload Journal #68 - Aug 2005 ]

Professionalism in Programming #32
Description :

In this article I present a series of thought provoking questions based on some topics that I've covered in past issues.

Category: [ Project Management | CVu Journal Vol 17, #3 - Jun 2005 ]