Extreme Programming resources 1

[RobertCMyers]

Haven't seen much on XP here. I've compiled a list of useful XP resources for anyone interested:

http://www.mindfulsoftware.com/xp.html#XpLinks

I'm currently working with Menlo Innovations (

http://www.menloinnovations.com),

a group that uses XP as an efficient project management and scheduling process.

Rob

 

[neilkonitzer]

Here's another decent resource...

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/

Neil Konitzer
Freisoft

http://www.freisoft.com

 

[gosh]

Here is one application done with XP

http://www.gorep.se

 

[mfonseca11]

There's other good links...

eXtreme Programming links...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/messages

http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/index.htm

http://ootips.org/xp.html

Agile Methodology and friends...

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html

http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa/

http://www.baddesigns.com/

 

[mickyjune26]

are any of these programs free? I'm seeing a little more development in the open-source community concerning project management tools.

 

[RobertCMyers]

Well, the price of entry is pretty low. Can you afford a copy of "Planning Extreme Programming" by Beck and Fowler, and a stack of 3X5 cards?

The more I learn, the more I realize that the cards are far more powerful than any PM software I've used. Save the pennies (or $10,000 bills, if you have those to spend) you'd have spent on Microsoft or Rational software.

Should you invest in a paper company? No. I've also found that liberal use of the cards lowers the use of paper at the office. My data is anecdotal at best, but we avoid printing (and reprinting) requirements documents. Plus, the cards stuck up on a wall act as a progress chart for the release plan and the iteration plan. And since I insist that the chart be updated every day, people don't seem to mind sticking colored stickers onto a requirement card whenever it's done each day, rather than updating some file hidden away on the file server.

Read your PMP book (rather than memorizing it for the test), then read "Extreme Programming Explained." Huh. There's more PM in XP than in any $20,000 software package out there.

Finally, software doesn't manage projects. People manage projects. If you're still using terms like "resources" when you mean "people" then you may need to take a good hard look at your relationships with your people. XP is humanistic, which means your entire team has to behave like a community so that your best people don't leave.

Why all the free advice? Because I was in San Francisco while the dot-coms were sucking down the VC and then crashing prior to delivery. I watched a lot of money and talent get wasted, and I know why. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" ;-)

Rob

http://www.mindfulsoftware.com

 

[mickyjune26]

yeah, that's really good advice. MS seems to treat people as items, though when in a management position they are resources to be disposed of, the communication lines between you and the employees shouldn't seem that way. After all, business should be fun!

Anyone know of some free PM software available? I found one, but it's not easy to learn like most free stuff.

 

[glrpfi]

There is a project tracking software coming out in january that tracks all the jobs/tasks/issues associated with projects and/or programs.

It collects resource time tracking

It includes a heads-up console that displays the portfolio of projects being tracked, color coded red-yellow-green. click on a project and see all the open jobs, also color coded. click on a job and get all the detail.

a PM can watch the status of their tasks and in a couple clicks drill down to the detail.

pricing is reported to be about 99 a named user license. its not a subscription or maintenance fee driven product. one pay, eternal play.

tekplanllc@aol.com is the home of the ownership of this simple vb application. I had the pleasure of playing with the beta version.

 

[mickyjune26]

by "a named user license", do you mean $99 per user? or unlimited company license?

 

[glrpfi]

named user, means the ourchasing company buys a 10 user license, they can create 10 login id's.

For packages that do not run on a subscription model and have a low per user price, this is common.