Resources
Here are some reading and resources that I believe you will find to be of interest.
Time to Market is Still Everything
A rebuke against the claim that time and quality are mutually exclusive and a recipe for getting to market fast without losing quality are presented.
http://www.transitionchoices.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=19
Projection
An online publication covering media and technology.
When to Say No
If Everything is Important, then Nothing is Important. This pretty much sums up, in simple terms, the most important advancements in the past ten years of software process development.
http://www.transitionchoices.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=8
Projection
An online publication covering media and technology.
Agile For Dummies
A good introduction to Agile software development without the heavy handed manifesto style hard sell.
http://ploneglenn.blogspot.com/2008/01/agile-for-dummies.html
Something Wiki This Way Comes
Short Contemplations on Contemporary Culture
Renaissance Software Development
When it comes to software development, a small team of smart, and high paid, workers are more productive than a large team of dumb, and low paid, workers.
http://ploneglenn.blogspot.com/2007/08/renaissance-software-development.html
Something Wiki This Way Comes
Short Contemplations on Contemporary Culture
The One Minute Risk Assessment Tool
This article presents the six most risky factors in software development; poor methodology fit, lack of customer involvement, immaturity, lack of experience, complexity, and scope creep.
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=239&page=1
Association for Computer Machinery
The world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. They deliver resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.
Software Development Project Management
A mind map describing various aspects and resources for the intelligent managing of a successful software development project.
http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/7736794
Mind Meister
A German/Austrian web 2.0 company whose main product is an online, collaborative mind mapping tool.
Start - A Conference for Entrepreneurs
Start is a one-day conference in San Francisco designed for smart, talented Web people to take hold of their ideas, follow their dreams, and start their own companies.
http://www.thestartconference.com/
Adaptive Path
Product experience strategy and design company.
Random Twits from the Start Conference
Here are some notes taken by the audience at the Start Conference.
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Usable Web Site Development Strategies
A surprisingly good resource for learning about prudent software development practices.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America
Collective Intelligence
The Handbook of Collective Intelligence
http://scripts.mit.edu/~cci/HCI/index.php?title=Main_Page
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Microsoft documentation unfit for US consumption
Microsoft continues to be under antitrust investigations due to its inadequate documentation.
ars technica
Technology news online publication
Extreme Programming
A gentle introduction to eXtreme Programming, or XP, which is a software development methodology that an emphasis on short iteration cycles, pair programming, and no living documentation.
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
Don Wells
An XP enthusiast in Michigan. An early advocate whose stance on XP has a lot less attitude than the controversial Kent Beck.
Frequently Forgotten Facts
Some pretty good advice on developing software by the editor of the Journal of Systems and Software.
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/buildyourcareer/fa035
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology
Capability Maturity Model for Software
Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes.
Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon is a global research university of more than 10,000 students, 70,000 alumni and 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership in education, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university.
Six Trends for EA Professionals
Enterprise architecture (EA) will continue its journey up the value chain in 2009, but there's no doubt that the road will be bumpy at best.
http://ploneglenn.blogspot.com/2009/01/enterprise-architecture-talk-on-second.html
Linden Lab
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as the Second Life® world, has a rapidly growing population of Residents from around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design.
Beyond Blogging
IBM hosted a two day conference within Second Life on Virtual Worlds entitled Beyond Blogging. This is my blog entry covering this conference.
http://ploneglenn.blogspot.com/2009/04/ibm-virtual-worlds-conference.html
Google Blogger
I also blog on this Google owned blogging franchise originally started by the founder to twitter.
The Future of Work
The Global IT Community will continue its search for new and more effective ways of Enterprise Collaboration amongst geographically distributed and culturally diverse teams of experts.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/future-of-work/
Toolbox of IT
The Toolbox.com network of online communities enables anyone to access the collective knowledge of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals. Through Toolbox.com, executives and professionals can collaborate with their peers to resolve problems more efficiently, make better decisions by leveraging best practices and lessons learned, and increase their efficiency in the workplace.
Why Software Fails
We waste billions of dollars each year on entirely preventable mistakes. This article discusses the impact software development project failures and how to avoid them.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/why-software-fails
IEEE
IEEE Spectrum magazine is the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world's largest professional technology association. It is a monthly magazine for technology innovators, business leaders, and the intellectually curious. Spectrum explores future technology trends and the impact of those trends on society and business.
INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks
XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each.
http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0308/index.shtml
William Wake
Agile software coach
Open Calais
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
Thomson Reuters
THE WORLD’S LEADING SOURCE OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION FOR BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONALS.
Laura Engstrand
Welcome to yet another software developer's personal home page.
http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/laura/engstrand
Laura Engstrand
Laura is the sister to Dynamical Software founder Glenn Engstrand.
Open Source Tools
Open Source Software has become a very important and influential movement in the world of Information Technology. Software developers can gain a lot of ability by embracing OSS tools.
http://www.transitionchoices.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=17
Projection
Where the machine of the media uses light and shadow to transmit the message.
Web 2.0 News Portal
The mission of this project is to produce a small, easy to install, easy to operate application for the purpose of publishing categorized, story based content to the web.
http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/
Source Forge
SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience.