A friend of mine is introducing use cases to his company, and asked for some advice. It sounds like an interesting project — they’ll be using it for both a hardware and software component.
Here’s what I told him:
Spend a lot of time talking about what’s actually going to be covered in the use cases [...]
Take a look at this review from KnowledgeTrain:
http://www.knowledgetrain.co.uk/project-management-training-course-article012.php
I think it definitely captures what we were trying accomplish with our book. I agree with almost all of his criticisms — for the most part, they are a reflection of decisions that we made about the direction of the book. (As you know, in any project of [...]
Jenny and I are working on an article about how open source projects have such great practices. We’ve been talking a lot about what corporate IT can learn from open source, and what kind of chronic problems routinely and repeatedly happen on corporate projects. Our idea is that open source projects adopt practices which corporate [...]
We're currently working on Beautiful Teams. It's going to be similar to Beautiful Code: a collection of stories from developers, project managers and industry leaders about their experiences leading or wokring with software teams.
