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Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications
Today, the world of software development is presented with a new challenge. To fully leverage this new class of multi-core hardware, software developers must change the w...
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Date: December 2007 |
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10 reasons your star programmer may be looking to leave
Top programmers are not easy to find. It takes time to cull through dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes to find the magic combination you want, and it takes hours to perf...
Company: Justin James
Date: May 2008 |
Justin James |
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IT Hiring Kit: Project Manager
Updated with all new content!
Our IT Hiring Kit for Project Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a project manager p...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: April 2008 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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Project management screw-up #1: Failing to address the right problem
One of the easiest ways to spin your wheels and waste your time on a project is to lose sight of just what the project is supposed to address. This sample chapter from ...
Company: FT Press
Date: April 2008 |
FT Press |
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Sustain and broaden customer focus outside of your projects
As a project manager or business analyst, you have an important role outside the scope of customer projects. Your work outside the context of projects helps to identif...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: January 2008 |
Joe Goss |
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Create and sustain a customer focus within projects
Whether the clients you serve are inside or outside your organization, creating and sustaining customer focus is crucial to your success as an IT department. As a proj...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: January 2008 |
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10+ tips for getting your application into production
Developers usually consider an application successful if it meets budget, delivery, and business requirements. But getting from development to final acceptance can be a s...
Company: TechRepublic
Date: January 2008 |
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10 tips for managing virtual teams
Most everyone works in a team environment, and it's generally been understood that the most effective teams are those located together. But thanks to the Internet, faste...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: November 2007 |
Tom Mochal |
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10 tips for meeting IT project deadlines
Erratic and poorly estimated timelines, scope creep, unexpected staff illnesses, and supplier failures are just a few of the things that could go wrong with your project....
Company: TechRepublic
Date: November 2007 |
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Increase your software project's chances of success by practicing outside-in development
Outside-in software development is a way of thinking about building software that keeps your team's focus and energy on the people who will ultimately engage with and ben...
Company: IBM Press
Date: October 2007 |
IBM Press |
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Categorize high-level requirements into use case titles for better project management
Many business analysts use Unified Modeling Language use case diagrams to identify the actors and their high-level actions in a system. These diagrams help an analysis...
Company: Joe Goss
Date: October 2007 |
Joe Goss |
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10+ project management mistakes (and what you can learn from them)
It may seem as though the high-pressure field of IT project management doesn't tolerate slip-ups, but carelessness is different from failing while trying to do your best....
Company: TechRepublic
Date: October 2007 |
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10 challenging types of techies... and how to manage them
Managers don't have time to conduct therapy sessions in the course of an already-demanding project. All you can do is recognize team members' specific ongoing issues and ...
Company: TechRepublic
Date: October 2007 |
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10+ things that can send an IT project off the rails
Depending upon the unique aspects of a situation, a multitude of reasons can cause a project to go out of control. Here are some of the most common risk factors.T...
Company: TechRepublic
Date: September 2007 |
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Successfully build a complex Web site with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Start with a comprehensive project plan
Attempting to create a complex Web site without proper planning would be like taking a trip from New York to California without the benefit of road maps. You may know...
Company: Que Publishing
Date: August 2007 |
Que Publishing |
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Use story cards to estimate, prioritize, and plan agile projects
An agile software development team needs to define the software features that have value to the business, then plan their implementation to realize this value as qu...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: August 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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IT Manager's Tool Kit, Third Edition
Make better use of your time. Leverage the grassroots advice and proven time-saving tools collected in TechRepublic's IT Manager's Tool Kit, Third Edition. Proven peer-au...
Company: TechRepublic Pro
Date: August 2007 |
TechRepublic Pro |
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Catch the rhythm of effective project execution and lead your IT projects to success
Having performed a project at some time during your career doesn't automatically make you a project manager. Yet an understanding of project management is essential...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: August 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Demystify software estimation to achieve better control over your project and meet your project goals
The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome, but to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the pro...
Company: Microsoft Press
Date: June 2007 |
Microsoft Press |
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Build quality assurance and enterprise integration into every development project
"Feature complete" is not the same as "production ready." Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship or your Web site read...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: May 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Top project management resources: Best of Tom Mochal
For years, Tom Mochal has been sharing his project management strategies and advice with TechRepublic members. We've rounded up more than 20 of his tips and articles here...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: May 2007 |
Tom Mochal |
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SolutionBase: Deploying applications using GFI LANguard
Deploying applications in an organization can be an exercise in frustration. Deployment tools are either too expensive (SMS), or limited (plain MSI files and Group Policy...
Company: Derek Schauland
Date: April 2007 |
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Successfully execute IT projects by using integrated project plans and standards for measurements
Chapter four of CMMI for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition outlines how to execute projects using integrated project plans an...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: April 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Build a communicating, cooperative software development team
Successful software projects require that the members of development teams notice important events and to be both willing and able to communicate to others what the...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: April 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Transform your software development and software project management processes by adopting agile methods
It is not too extreme a statement to say that when it comes to software development and software project management in general, agile changes everything. In ...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: March 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Take the guesswork out of software project estimation: Investigate size, effort, and scheduling of projects
Heads of large IT organizations continue to be tormented by one of the most difficult facets of managing IT business: controlling their budgets. Estimates that cover cost...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: March 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Use open source Subversion for personal document management
The open source version control system Subversion has rapidly become a developer favorite. It enjoys an excellent reputation and a wealth of free, online documentation...
Company: Chad Perrin
Date: March 2007 |
Chad Perrin |
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Foster excellence and innovation within your software development team with these strategies
Learn why software development teams are needed, explore the innovative nature of development work, and identify the conditions required for teams to do such work i...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: February 2007 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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Apply agile methods to developing a user interface for a payroll application
Whether you are a C# programmer, a software development manager, or a business analyst, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# will help you understan...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: January 2007 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Back to the future: Are software development methods trending backwards, and is that a good thing?
Discover the treasure buried in the early history of software development in this sample chapter from No Fluff, Just Stuff 2006 Anthology. Programmer Glenn V...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: January 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Master the facilitation skills you need to lead an effective software development iteration retrospective
As a software developer, you are already an expert at what you know--software development--but you can still improve your team's methodology to allow you to continu...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: January 2007 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them)
In the traditional waterfall model of software development, the first phase of requirements analysis is also the most important one. This is the phase which involves g...
Company: Melonfire
Date: January 2007 |
Melonfire |
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Achieve and sustain excellence in your product development: Use scorecards for risk management in technical processes
Whether you work in the strategic, tactical, or operational technical environment, establishing formal methods for measuring technical task performance is essential. It...
Company: Prentice Hall PTR
Date: November 2006 |
Prentice Hall PTR |
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Set your software development project on the road to success with these practical tools and strategies
Ever wonder why many software projects run into trouble, and many never ship at all—while others run like well-oiled machines? Learn how to set your software developmen...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: October 2006 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Save time and money, and deliver a better product: Build quality into your IT project from the ground up
If you think the rigorous processes required to deliver high quality results are too expensive, just think about the long-term costs of delivering poor quality. These c...
Company: Syngress
Date: October 2006 |
Syngress |
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Develop more secure software without sacrificing rapidity: Integrate the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) with Agile methods
To date, there is very little guidance for development teams wanting to augment Agile methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, with security discipline. After me...
Company: Microsoft Press
Date: September 2006 |
Microsoft Press |
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Develop an agile approach: The key to successful software development
Become a better developer by acquiring the habits and approaches of successful, agile software developers, presented in Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in t...
Company: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Date: August 2006 |
Pragmatic Bookshelf |
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Mini-glossary: Project management terms you should know
Part of the process of successfully deploying project management in an organization is to standardize the terminology. That way, when one person talks about risks, scope,...
Company: Tom Mochal
Date: July 2006 |
Tom Mochal |
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Squeeze more out of the construction phase of software development
Changes in the way software is developed mean that organizations need to make changes to the way that they plan for projects.
Software creation and the ...
Company: TechRepublic
Date: March 2006 |
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An explanation of the common underpinnings of a successful open source project
This chapter download from Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project tries to show the structural underpinnings successful open...
Company: O'Reilly Media
Date: December 2005 |
O'Reilly Media |
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All software projects must end eventually, learn how to determine when you are there
Especially when it comes to software development, the actual shipping product will always be a compromise between what could have been and what must be because of ...
Company: Addison Wesley Professional
Date: September 2005 |
Addison Wesley Professional |
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