This chapter from Architecture-Centric Software Project Management gives an overview of all the main activities that a project manager practicing an architecture-centric approach will be involved in.n...

This article follows up on Pete McBreen s earlier article How to Crash and Burn Your Java Project with survival strategies for developers so that the impact of poor decision-making is minimized....

Pete McBreen says Ed Yourdon is wrong; death-march development projects are not the norm - or at least they shouldn t be....

The primary objective of this IBM Redbook is to provide best practices for the implementation of a License Management solution based on IBM Tivoli License Manager V2.2. This redbook is divided into two main parts In Part 1 Business aspects and project engagement considerations on page 1 we discuss the reasons why you should deploy a License...

In this chapter Russ Olsen at both the Factory Method pattern and the Abstract Factory pattern. He also shines a light on some dynamic Ruby techniques that will help you build factories more effectively....

Josh Bloch shares his thoughts about em> Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software< em> on the 15th anniversary of its publication....

Joshua Kerievsky presents six refactorings that target design problems in everything from constructors to overly complicated construction logic to unnecessary Singletons DP . While these refactorings don t address every creational design problem you ll likely encounter they do address some of the most common problems....

Steve Vinoski shares his thoughts about em> Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software< em> on the 15th anniversary of its publication....

Mark Soper shows how to restore files to a Windows 7 system how to restore a system image to an empty hard disk and how to use Windows 7 to restore backups made with Windows Vista and Windows backup programs....

Online periodical for technology managers and business leaders ExecutiveBrief provides quality original articles on managing people processes and selecting best tools....

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a best practice framework for IT Service Management. Enterprises of all sizes use ITIL to streamline their processes for designing creating delivering and managing high quality IT services to their business end customers. See how WhatsUp Gold provides critical support for several key ITIL service...

Alan axiom or was never truer than it is in project-management environment. Robert K. Wysocki discusses the Adaptive Project Framework and why it needs to replace traditional project management....

Craig Larman and Bas Vodde discuss team and management changes breaking barriers and habits gatherings coaching and community and continuous improvement....

A.Lizard completes this two-part series on Linux netbook hibernation with a discussion of how to configure uswsusp booting power management and suspend-hybrid operation....

In this transcript of an oral history Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 17 they discuss steps that Humphrey oversaw at IBM to measure and improve software quality....