Frameworks not only save money but also improve the quality of your software. Check out how OO-frameworks can be applied to networked applications while comparing them to other popular software development techniques....

As well as being a great input into our design activities use cases are a fantastic aid to our quality assurance activities in that they provide the information we need to design acceptance test cases....

Where do requirements come from How can use cases help to record requirements What does a good use case look like What do I do with a use case once I have it...

Craig Larman and Bas Vodde asked agile development experts working in and with large companies about the most challenging organizational impediments. Find out what they said....

Gerard Meszaros discusses how unit testing is different than traditional black-box testing; the limitations of test patterns; and how the programming language chosen affects testing....

Dean Leffingwell suggests that other types of knowledge work can apply useful principles learned from Agile Lean Scrum and XP software development....

In this interview Alistair Cockburn shares his views on missing the point of Crystal running productive work sessions including the one that spawned The Agile Manifesto and whether a project can be considered Agile if it doesn t use all the accepted methodologies....

Project management expert Joseph Phillips shows you how to earn your PgMP the Program Management Professional Certification from the Project Management Institute....

This chapter provides an overview of three of the core concepts related to the subject of software architecting and concludes with a discussion of the benefits of architecting....

Feature teams are a key to accelerating time-to-market and to scaling agile development but a major organizational change for most. If you re a change agent for large-scale agility you need to really grasp the issues....

Andrew Binstock interviews Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones the authors of The Elements of Programming on their new book decomposing software why C was their choice for the book and their perspectives on OO and generic programming....

Project management expert Joseph Phillips shows what you need to in order to become a risk management guru with a PMI-Risk Management Professional certification....

Peter Vogel walks you through an end-to-end solution for code generation that concentrates on integrating with Visual Studio and working with the CodeElement objects....

In this transcript of an oral history Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 31 Humphrey discusses how TSP caught on at large corporations but why it has never made inroads in academia....

Continuing his series on concurrent programming David Chisnall discusses how to remove the need for locking in some common cases making use of lockless data structures....