Cassiopeia s.r.l.

• Project Management Book of Knowledge: free book in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
• Internet Directory of Generally Accepted Practices in Project Management
• Information Week Online: this “Interactive Source for Managing Technology in
  Business” is the online version of Information Week magazine.
• Word Problems for Kids
• Word Problems on Job Completion
• SOS Math: most of this page is beyond what you will need in introductory project
  management classes, but the arithmetic links at the beginning talk about problems
  you should be able to solve.
• Math Archives: topics in Math – Arithmetic
• Earned Value Papers: good site on all aspects of scheduling.Some papers on Earned Value,
  Project Scheduling, PERT, Performance Measurement, Role of the Project Manager.
• What is a Gantt chart?: short, easy-to-understand definition here

Software Engineering

• Center for Software Engineering: COCOMO-based tools for estimating
  the time and effort that large projects will require.
• Estimate Professional : is a software project estimation tool from
  Starbase.
• Technologeeko a site devoted to technology breaking news and reviews. Hacks & tips. Several interesting articles here.
• Ed Yourdon’s Home Page: Ed made rather a splash as one of the
  people publicly worried about the Y2K bug, but before and after
  that he’s been a steady practitioner of good software engineering.
  There are lots of good pointers to other sources here, and a great
  sense of humor.
• Guide to the SWEBOK: SoftWare Engineering Body Of Knowledge. This
  is an IEEE project to codify what software professionals ought
  to know.
• High-Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management: one of
  a number of white papers on the Perforce web site. Perforce are
  also the makers of an excellent source code management system.
• Joel On Software: Joel Spolsky has done software management at
  Microsoft and Juno. His essays on the software management process
  are well worth reading even if you don’t agree entirely with his
  management style (I don’t, but I still learn from them).
• Patterns Home
  Page: software patterns have had a big impact on the field
  of software engineering in recent years. The basic notion is to
  learn by abstracting the pattern of workable solutions. This page
  provides links to hundreds of resources, from tutorials to mailing
  lists to book reviews to online pattern repositories.
• Refactoring Home Page: from Martin Fowler, who wrote the book on refactoring.
  Lots of good stuff here, including extra material and errata for
  the book, links to other sites and commercial tools, and a news
  section. Well worth a visit.
• Scrum: is another methodology for hyper-rapid software development. Looks
  similar to Extreme Programming. Reading (and implementing) this
  sort of thing can be inspirational to organizations that are so
  mired in process that they can no longer get anything shipped.
• SGI Software Usability II: a leaked 1993 memo from an engineer
  at Silicon Graphics, analyzing what went wrong with a large release.
  There are some lessons to be learned here about both writing software
  and managing the software process.
• Software Engineering: a page of stories from Tom Van Vleck. These range
  from simple parables to technical journal articles about Multics,
  with which he was deeply involved. Most are short, and you can
  read an ponder one while you’re waiting for your next compile
  to complete.
• Software Engineering Institute: located at Carnegie-Mellon, this is
  a federally-funded outfit that does research into serious management
  of serious software projects.
• Software
  Engineering Laboratory: this is a NASA effort that makes available
  fat PDF publications of what’s worked at Goddard Space Flight
  Center. They’re proponents of an extremely structured approach.
  Software engineering management.
• Software Engineering Professionalism Website: another effort from Steve
  McConnell, this one complements his book After the Gold Rush.
  Links to much useful information on licensing, codes of ethics,
  reading lists, and other professional development topics.
• Trends in Software Engineering Process Management

Programming

• Agile Modeling Home Page: an extensive collection of material related to lightweight
  software modeling techniques.
• Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology: website full of papers on object-oriented design
  and cooperative programming.
• Big Ball of Mud: an essay that takes a look at some real-world software patterns and
  considers why so many projects end up taking the messy form of a big ball
  of mud, despite our best efforts to learn and apply solid software engineering
  principles. Includes some advice about salvaging projects that have reached
  this state.
• The Case Against Extreme Programming: athoroughgoing attack on XP, together
  with rebuttal and discussion.
• Catalog of Non-Software Examples of Design Patterns: if you have trouble understanding
  the abstract language sometimes used in describing software design patterns,
  take a look at this site.
• Extreme Programming
• Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction: covers the basics of XP.
• Extreme Programming FAQ: the basics about XP, with pointers to further information.
  Good comparisons with other programming practices.
• How to Write Unmaintainable Code: when you think all is lost and no one will
  ever write good software again, it’s time to go browse this site.
• In Defense of Coding Standards: is an essay subtitled “How to Create
  Coding Standards That Work.” It argues for a minimalist approach that
  looks likely to succeed in bringing some form of (often much-needed) standardization
  to nearly any development organization.
• An Introduction to Extreme Programming: on the O’Reilly Network, this article
  introduces the concepts of XP and considers possible synergies between XP
  and open source.
• Literate Programming – Propaganda and Tools: literate programming is defined as
  the combination of documentation and source together in a fashion suited for
  reading by human beings.
• Manifesto for Agile
  Software Development: astatement of position from practitioners of a bunch
  of “lightweight” development practices such as XP and Scrum that
  picks out the common themes of responding quickly to change and valuing results
  over process.
• Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code: is a wandering essay arguing that we
  can get more and more interesting code by turning vast mobs of programmers
  loose on it.
• Pairprogramming.com: a site devoted to research about and cheerleading for the practice of pair
  programming, where two developers work at the same time on the same source
  code. Several interesting articles here.
• Process Builder
• Process Impact: is a consulting house focused on “practical software process improvement”.
  Check out the Publication page, which includes a number of excellent articles
  on software culture, risk management, project management and related topics.
• Software Program Managers Network: this is a group of software manager for the Department
  of Defense, very concerned with how to keep track of large, out-of-control
  projects.
• Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming: apaper reporting on productivity and quality
  gains from the practice of having pairs of programmers working together. Includes
  some qualitative data.
• Portable Wordpress:  the most complete and detailed guide  ”how to” install Wordpress locally on your computer – Setup Guide
• XProgramming.Com: a new site for devotees of Extreme Programming.
  

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