Resources

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People and organizations who have influenced FemmeTech's software development philosophy:

Software For Your Head-McCarthy Technologies http://www.mccarthy-tech.com/
 

The Agile Alliance http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ and http://www.agilealliance.com


We support Agile Modeling (AM).


Scott Ambler - Agile Modeling http://www.ambysoft.com/

Pete McBreen (author-Software Craftsmanship) http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/index.html

Martin Fowler http://www.martinfowler.com/

Ed Yourdon http://www.yourdon.com/

Alistair Cockburn http://members.aol.com/acockburn/

Jim Highsmith http://www.adaptivesd.com/

ThoughtWorks http://www.thoughtworks.com/index.html

Construx Software http://www.construx.com/

Magenic http://www.magenic.com/



Software Development Links

ootips http://www.ootips.org

Modeling Style Info http://www.agilemodeling.com/style/

Crystal Methodology http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/wiki

SCRUM http://www.controlchaos.com/

Extreme Programming - A Gentle Introduction http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index.html


The Object Management Group (UML) http://www.omg.org/

Carnegie-Mellon's Software Engineering Group Capability Maturity Model http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/

SPICE http://www.sqi.gu.edu.au/spice/what.html

Software Development Magazine http://www.sdmagazine.com/

The Haley Enterprise (business rules engines) http://www.haley.com/THE.html

Builder.com http://builder.com.com/

TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com/

developer.* (Principled Programming Article) http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/read_princprog.html


Visual Basic Developer's Resources

Code Hound (great code search engine) http://www.codehound.com/vb/

Free VBCode.com http://www.freevbcode.com/

.NET-2-The-Max (Francisco Balena) http://www.vb2themax.com/

DevX http://www.devx.com/

A1VBCode.com The VB Source Code Site http://www.a1vbcode.com/

VBNet Developer's Resource Centre http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html

searchVB.com http://searchvb.techtarget.com/

Code Guru's Visual Basic Website http://www.codeguru.com/vb/

VBWire http://vbwire.com/

InStep (Deborah Kurata, author of Doing Objects in Visual Basic 6.0) http://www.insteptech.com/

BetaV Corporation (Bill Vaughn) http://www.betav.com/

Rocky Lhotka (author of several excellent doing objects with VB books) http://www.lhotka.net/

Karl E. Petersen's One-Stop Source Shop http://vb.mvps.org/

The magazine formerly known as Visual Basic Programmer's Journal http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/

Microsoft's Visual Basic site http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/


Notable Articles

People as Non-linear Components (Alistair Cockburn) talks about people, the funny things they are, and how we can make better use of their strengths, and what weaknesses to watch out for.
http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/cpanfocisd/characterizingpeopleasnonlinear.html

Just-in-time Methodology Construction (Alistair Cockburn) gives a technique for setting one up in time to do your project good.
http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/jmc/justintimemethodologyconstruction.html

Michael A. Beedle et al., Scrum: An pattern language for hyperproductive software development (criticizes the principles underlying CMM-like process frameworks)
http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop98/final_submissions/P49.pdf

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