Stop me of you’ve heard this one. The developers build a product that they are happy with and send it to QA or to the stakeholders for verification. As far as the developers are concerned the product is “finished”. The QA group (or other stakeholders) come back with a handful of bugs that “must be […]

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How is it that so many great ideas from developers never come to fruition? There exists an untold amount of knowledge within most development teams as relates to technology. I don’t think anyone could argue that the guys in the trenches are often the guys that know the best way to solve a problem.

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Many assert that the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Extreme Programming (XP) are complimentary processes. It seems a little counterintuitive that you can have two processes in place in the same organization at the same time and everything will work. The RUP and XP couldn’t be more different in terms of their approach to development […]

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Many companies turn to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to save them from disaster. Unfortunately, RUP has a dirty little secret that may mean salvation is further away then it may appear. Actually, it isn’t a very well kept secret, but it is something that many people seem unaware of. The fact is that RUP […]

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Contractors (short-term hourly workers) can lend help on a project that is understaffed or bring specific knowledge that the team does not currently have. It is possible to have too much of a good thing and the overuse of contractors can spell doom for a project. How can contractors be managed to maximize their benefit […]

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