project planning
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Look at Application Lifecycle Management during Project InceptionDuring a project’s inception phase various tasks usually take place. Joe Townsend takes a look at application lifecycle management (ALM) during the early stages of a project and what roles configuration management (CM), quality assurance (QA), and quality control (QC) play. | 
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Better Done Than Perfect: Tempering Standards for Software Projects Developing software is a complex undertaking and one that’s typically deadline driven. It’s impossible to test every conceivable scenario or even to conceive of every conceivable scenario. The result is that mistakes surface. The challenge is to find the balance between speed and quality. |
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Removing Waste in Software Projects When the government suddenly passes regulations that impact the development of a product, an organization's investments could suddenly turn to waste. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains how to deal with the waste as well as some methods to better handle inventories. |
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What Happens When Projects Are Completed Ahead of Schedule?Are projects ever completed ahead of schedule? It turns out the answer is yes, and interestingly, just as with projects that fall behind, issues can arise with projects completed ahead of schedule. Naomi Karten writes about some of these problems and what to do if you finish a project early. |
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What Is Business Value and How Do You Measure It?Agile approaches have changed the conversation about measuring project success, from comparing against cost, time, and scope projections to looking at how much value the project is going to deliver. The problem that remains, however, is determining what value really is and how to measure it. | 
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Why Do We Continue to Fail at Requirements Management?Joe Townsend examines why software professionals continue to fail at requirements management (RM). Some of the ways to address RM issues include using the right RM tools, proper requirements prioritization, and requirements churn. |
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What to Do When Your Project SlipsIf your project has ever slipped, you are most certainly not alone. Naomi Karten lists the reasons that lead to a broken project or one that has fallen behind, and describes what you can do to avoid catastrophe. |
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Reconsidering User Stories User stories, one of the most common agile techniques, are used by delivery teams to support their iterative planning efforts and are typically used to represent items in a backlog. Until recently there has been a general agreement about the form that user stories should take. |
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