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What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 2




In the previous post in this series (Making the right decisions), I talked about some of the decisions that the senior management team has to make when they are near the release of a major product, and the balancing act that they need to make while making the right decision (in a situation where the [...]



What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 1




This is probably one of the most controversial topics in software development. You have a software on which the company has dedicated an insane amount of effort on, the software contributes a significant percentage (upwards of 25%) of the revenue of the company and it is a well know software. This could be MS-Office, could [...]



What are use case diagrams and their role in software development processes?




Use cases are nothing but a series of steps formalized to achieve goals as defined by the stake holders. The use cases are said to be at the heart of the unified model language or UML as it is known in the abbreviated form. There are total 9 diagrams which comprise the unified model language [...]



Advantages of using Scrum (contd..)




A couple of posts back, I had mentioned about some of the advantage of using Scrum as a project execution methodology, and this post is a continuation of that description. – You get a person to play the role of one who ensures that the team is following the processes as they are supposed to [...]