Project Management Lessons from NASA

Here is very interesting list of project management lessons from NASA.

Project Management Truisms - Part 1

Interesting list of project management truisms. Although it should be sarcastic, unfortunately in some cases it is reality. Link to the original post is here.

Instantly Become a Better Programmer (then worry about learning TDD)

These days TDD is very often considered as the most important practice you need when developing software. But will TDD help you if you do not have basics? What if you are missing basic knowledge about patterns, about design? In that case TDD will not be of big help. Very interesting article about this problem and what steps to perform before going to TDD is here.

Filling the product backlog

Interesting blog with short story how to create product backlog for product you are going to create. Original story is here.

Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last

Very interesting comparison of doctor with 20 years of experience and what is a difference having long years of experience and being professional. Read the article here.

Agile Failures

To be able to learn how to avoid common pitfalls it is not enough to read about agile success. Even maybe more important is to read abut agile failures. Only when you know what happened on other projects, what went wrong, and how this situation could be avoided you can really improve your agile skills. On Scrum Alliance wiki there is place to document Agile/Scrum failures. Link to the page is here.

10 Principles of Agile Project Time Management

Just excellent post. All 10 points are excellent. You should really read this from time to time. Original link is here.