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Business Process Engineering

Business Process Trends – our favourite business process site from one of the true gurus (Paul Harmon). Many good resources.

Business Process Management Initiative - some useful resources. More good stuff at Management by Process.


Agile Development

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.

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.

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 here.


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 from one of the giants in the field.

Joel Spolsky - idiosyncratic author, good resources.

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.