Useful Links
Business Process Engineering
- Business Process Trends – our favourite business process site from one of the true gurus (Paul Harmon). Many good resources.
- Management by Process - some useful resources.
Agile Development
- DSDM Atern - the leading agile method framework in the UK. Agilier is pleased to be involved in the authorship of the latest version of the framework.
- Scrum - very popular in the USA, gaining ground the UK and Europe.
- XP - the best introduction to XP (Extreme Programming) – the method that kick-started the modern agile development movement.
- RUP - probably the best-known software development process today, and paradoxically the hardest to use successfully in an agile manner.
Project Management
- PRINCE2 – the official PRINCE2 website. A very useful supporting site can be found at CCLearning.
- On-line resource guide - thanks to Stacy Kozak and her class in Portland for bringing this to my attention!
Other Software development
- The Register - best for science and technical news and doesn’t take itself too seriously.
- Martin Fowler - excellent resources and deep-thinking commentary.
- Testing - more deep thinking, this time from a software-testing perspective.
- Volere - contains many useful resources on software requirements techniques.
Systems' Integration
- Cbdiforum - original thinking and a lot of free resources – registration required. Additional material is subscription only.
Miscellaneous
- Success121 - many useful free business resources, targeted at independent professionals.
- Bruce Schneier - forthright and opinionated thoughts from one of the world's leading security technologists.
- Atmospheric Optics - take five minutes' break to look at some marvellous natural phenomena.