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Andrew's blog posts are hosted at:http://www.stellman-greene.com
When team members hate each other
October 27 2009
We don’t always get to choose our teammates, especially at work. So what do you do when you just don’t get along with someone on your team? Not too long ago, I was doing our Beautiful Teams talk at a brown bag lunch for a big financial company here in… read moreUsing nonfunctional requirements to build better software
October 03 2009
Understanding nonfunctional requirements — which some people call software quality attributes or nonbehavioral requirements — can make a big difference when you’re building software. But a lot of people have trouble taking a somewhat theoretical idea and applying it to a real-life project. Luckily, we’ve got an easy, practical technique… read moreHow well does your program do… well, whatever it does?
October 03 2009
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking about architecture, since Jenny and I are going to give our Beautiful Teams talk at the ITARC 2009 New York conference next week.It’s got me thinking a lot about how architects work. I’ve been asked more than once recently about what,… read moreWhat makes architecture “better”?
September 22 2009
I’ve got some news! Jenny and I are going to be doing our Beautiful Teams talk at the upcoming IT Architect Regional Conference. We spoke at last year’s ITARC, and I was really impressed with the quality of their speakers. There were some really good insights into software architecture. It’s… read moreAgile testing and understanding change
August 23 2009
Tomorrow at the Agile 2009 conference, Abby Fitchner and Nate Oster are doing a workshop called Where Does Developer Testing End and Tester Testing Begin?. Jenny and I hope you can make it, because they’ll be doing a giveaway of autographed copies Beautiful Teams. Check out my O’Reilly Community posts… read moreThe perils of a schedule, part II
August 20 2009
In the first part of this post, I started to answer a reader’s question about what information you need before you estimate a project and build a schedule. The reader, Wayne, said that he didn’t “get a solid sense of the relative timing of the activities (especially the requirements activity),”… read moreAugust 14 2009
We got this e-mail a few days ago from one of our readers: Hello, I bought your book, “Applied Software Project Management.” It seems very good overall, but I can’t get past the fact that your book seems to imply that software requirements come after the project plan/WBS/scheduling. Am I missing something? On… read moreTaking stock of a failed project
July 24 2009
Some projects just go wrong. It’s a fact of life. Projects go over budget, blow their schedules, squander their resources. Sometimes they go off the rails so spectacularly that there’s nothing you can do except (literally) pick up the pieces and try to learn whatever lessons you can so you don’t… read moreIterative development is not unplanned development
July 16 2009
I got a great question from a software developer who also happens to be a fellow CMU alum. I have a question related to managing scope creep with respect to “on-going”/iterative development processes. I’m currently managing a project where we’re redesigning my application’s primary workflow. Simply put, the app is currently designed… read moreAnnouncing Head First PMP, 2nd edition!
July 11 2009
“I teach Project Management for for a project management firm and its clients. Using Head First PMP exclusively as the course material, my students have an 84% first time passing rate for the PMP and CAPM. This is by far the very best and most complete book for anyone looking… read moreCheck out our O’Reilly Week in Review podcast interview
May 27 2009
James Turner’s weekly O’Reilly Week in Review podcast this week features an interview with Jenny and me about Beautiful Teams, and what goes into making a team work well. I’ll transcribe a quick excerpt from the interview – we’re talking about our interview in the book with NASA manager and team leader… read moreMay 13 2009
Forbes picked up our Beautiful Teams interview with Tim O’Reilly and published it as an article called The Secrets of Great Teamwork.When Jenny and I talked to Tim, he had some intriguing things to say about what makes people work together. There’s plenty of good stuff in the interview, but… read moreRequirements 101: User Stories vs. Use Cases
May 03 2009
Here’s a question that I get over and over again: What’s the difference between user stories and use cases? — Ron K. Before I dive into an answer to that question, let’s rewind a little bit and talk about where user stories came from. I like them because they’re a great example… read moreOur new “Beautiful Teams” talk at Boston SPIN
April 24 2009
We unveiled a new talk on Tuesday at Boston SPIN! We love Boston audiences/ We met some great people (hi Abby!), and things went really well. As promised, here’s a PDF of the slide deck. We were especially pleased to finally meet Johanna Rothman in person. She was our first… read moreBringing a “teamwork feel” to your projects
March 31 2009
Jenny and I have been thinking a lot about teams lately. Working on Beautiful Teams really focused us on teamwork: what makes teams gel, what causes them to run into trouble, and what you can do to them. So when I got this question recently, it was really timely: I’ve been… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
