Joe Krebs discusses why soft skills factors, honesty and integrity are not only essential among team members, but also for entire enterprises—including their portfolios.

I was privileged to contribute to the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. Here are link to a some of the posts I found particularly interesting.

Being agile is a means to an end; your goal is to develop better software more effectively, not to be able to wear a "We are Agile" badge. If you're considering adopting agile, you are probably doing do because your current approach isn't getting you where you need to be so it's worth giving the 'by the book' technique a shot before you try to adapt an agile method to your circumstances.

This short book by Clarke Ching is a "biztech" parable for software developers who want to survive—and then thrive—through the credit crunch. We have republished the book in a four-part-series. In part four, our characters pitch Bob's plan to MegaCorp. But will business politics get in the way of a good idea? Follow the story as our characters fight to keep their jobs by implementing creative business ideas and management skills taken from agile development.