Emergent Design

There are not that many books who take a look at the software development profession. The book "Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development, by Scott L. Bain" is one of them, it takes a look on how the profession has developed and is still developing.

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People-CMM, de basis

Op donderdag 15 september is de volgende bijeenkomst van de SPIder P-CMM werkgroep, met als thema: People-CMM, de basis. We kijken terug naar de People-CMM niveau 2 procesgebieden die we de afgelopen jaren besproken hebben. Met deze procesgebieden legt een organisatie de basis voor goed people management.

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Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams

How do you collaboratively develop software when you have people working at different sites, countries or even continents? How do you get distributed teams to communicate effectively, and deliver working software in a agile way? The second book from Jutta Eckstein can help you to implement agile software development in a multisite environment. Below the book review that I wrote for Software Quality Professional, June 2011, published by the American Society for Quality.

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