Amazon Community Content Search
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/]
Search Amazon for books on particular subjects people found interesting. This includes Listmania!
APM Group's PRINCE2 Website
[http://www.prince2.org.uk/web/site/home/Home.asp]
This website is all about the PRINCE2 methodology - what it is, who owns the method, which qualifications are available and who you can contact for training and consultancy.
The APM Group (APMG) specialises in the accreditation and certification of organisations, processes and people, within a range of industries and management disciplines. APMG runs the PRINCE2 accreditation schemes, on behalf of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
Business Transition Technologies
[http://www.btt-research.com/]
Btt is a professional services firm specialising in helping managers think-through how they can get and deliver better results from their organisations, business processes or projects. This site contains some very interesting articels and visuals.
Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction
[http://www.extremeprogramming.org/]
This site is the souce for extreme programming. You find any step of the process explained and visualised. They even offer you a zipped version of the site for offline reference.
IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) Website
[http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rup/]
IBM Rational Unified Process®, RUP®, is process guidance content included in the Rational Method Composer framework that delivers proven best practices in a configurable architecture.
NASA Project Support and Outreach
[http://satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/]
SATC has been successful in disseminating results and knowledge through paper presentations and tutorials at various conferences and workshops. SATC attends and presents at software development and software quality conferences throughout the world. We feel these conferences are useful and key in the fields of software development and software quality.
Office of Government Commerce
[http://www.ogc.gov.uk/]
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) works with public sector organisations to help them improve their programme and project management, become more efficient and save money on the goods and services they buy. This allows them to deliver better value and direct more of their resources at important front line services. OGC is an independent office of the Treasury.
Official PRINCE2 Website
[http://www.ogc.gov.uk/prince2/]
PRINCE, which stands for Projects in Controlled Environments, is a project management method covering the organisation, management and control of projects. PRINCE was first developed by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) now part of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in 1989 as a UK Government standard for IT project management.
OGC Successful Delivery Toolkit - Documentation
[http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sdtoolkit/reference/documentation/index.html]
This page contains details of the main documents produced during the business change lifecycle. These documents are important because they record decisions taken and are a valuable management tool at key stages; subsequently they provide a complete audit trail. Each document is described in terms of its purpose, fitness for purpose checklist, suggested content and notes on its use.
The Capability Im-Maturity Model (CIMM)
[http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1996/11/xt96d11h.asp]
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) provides a framework to guide and measure software engineering improvement efforts by enabling organizations to assess their software engineering capabilities at one of the five levels of software process maturity. This tongue-in-cheek article extends the existing five levels downward by describing additional levels of process maturity (or im-maturity). Each of the new lower levels has a characteristic behavior associated with it that defines the level (Negligent, Obstructive, Contemptuous, Undermining).
The underlying problems with Prince2
[http://www.btt-research.com/waterfall_projects.htm]
Do your major projects have a structure similar to the model below ? That is, several stages (perhaps each of several or more months), separated by some kind of review meeting. If so, you are probably following a conventional 'waterfall-style' project management approach.
Writing Effective Requirements Specifications
[http://satc.gsfc.nasa.gov/support/STC_APR97/write/writert.html]
The Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) has developed an early life cycle tool for assessing requirements that are specified in natural language. The Automated Requirements Measurement (ARM) tool was used to analyze more than 50 NASA System/Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents. ARM reports were used to focus human analysis on specific aspects of the documentation practices exhibited by these documents. Several significant weaknesses were identified. This paper identifies the underlying problems that produce these deficiencies and recommends methods that can be used to prevent such problems.
