On weekends, I tend to go off tangent, and this weekend is no exception. I started to read some of the works of Levi-Strauss, the structural anthropologist, and it...

NY-based developer Large Animal (Rocketbowl, Snapshot Adventures) switched to the Scrum method of agile development last year, 'sprinting' to complete individual game...

A quick shout out to Chad Sturtz for passing this video my way. Video:Â http://www.viddler.com/explore/Agileaustin/videos/2/ Length: 82 minutes Date: 1 July 2008...

Ben Nadel is doing a great job of working through the concepts of OO programming, but I want to promote Dan Wilsons advice of doing the simplest thing possible (even if...

“Mainframe” and “Web 2.0” aren’t used together very often. Serena Software, Redwood City, Calif., hopes to change that with the release of...

I had heard of Test Driven Development (TDD), an agile development technique, and I knew people I knew were using it. I started using it recently after I finally learned...

Engine Yard, which provides a cloud-based Ruby and Rails deployment platform, has completed a second round of financing, including a chunk from cloud-computing heavy...

How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut Find is a beautiful tool Unboxed – If You?re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow – NYTimes.com How I learned...

Yup, I took the Scrum Master training. And I was also fortunate to go to a training help by Ken Schwaber. The training was intense. Two days of learning and doing...

In an effort to shine more light on the traditionally “dark art” of software development, Borland Software today announced Borland Management Solutions (BMS)....

A look back at the best from this week in the past. Foundation Series: Continuous Integration Continuous Integration Continuous Integration is the software development...

Many moths ago, I read an informative and often amusing book called It Sounded Good When We Started: A Project Manager's Guide to Working with People on Projects by Roy...

"If the user experience practice in your company was weak before Agile, Agile development isn't going to help things. If your user experience practice was strong before...

HP has unleashed a slew of product updates and enhancements to provide lifecycle services quality and management support, moving ever closer to a comprehensive...

"If the user experience practice in your company was weak before Agile, Agile development isn't going to help things. If your user experience practice was strong before...

Book title: Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design Authors: Peter Merholz, Brandon Schauer, David...

A couple of years ago, Phillippe Krutchen 'reinterpreted' the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects (link).  I saw it again recently and I have some...

Project management methodology has never been a particularly sexy topic. While it's always been necessary to employ some kind of process to guide any non-trivial software...

Nadyne Mielke, user experience researcher in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft wasn’t so impressed apparently with Adaptive Path’s recent book...

Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. There may be no greater “silos” in all of IT than the gulf between...