With the right indexes in place, MongoDB can use its hardware efficiently and serve your application’s queries quickly. In this article, based on chapter 7 of MongoDB in Action, author Kyle Banker talks about refining and administering indexes. You will learn how to create, build and backup MongoDB indexes.

The Scrum Burndown chart is very simple. It is easy to explain, easy to understand. But this metric also put in evidence some pitfalls observed in many agile workshops and adoptions. This article discuss them.

This article introduces a model of culture that is simple to understand and apply. The model will be used to show that Agile, Kanban and Software Craftsmanship have strong cultural biases that limit the scope of their applicability. Finally, an approach will be outlined to select approaches that work with the culture in your organization.

This video presents techniques that can ease you into .NET mocking frameworks and help you automated your unit testing process.

This article presents what HTML5 is offering to build RIA (Rich Internet Application)

The Dialogue Sheet is a new technique for team retrospectives. This technique involves a large sheet of paper that help to create good discussion and teamwork in Agile and Scrum projects.

This article presents the changes needed to create collaborative agile teams. It explains that you need to modify in your traditional project management team both the process, the way people get work done, and how people work together.

This article presents some characteristics of human behavior that should be considered when you design the user interface for a software application.

This article presents the models and standards that you can use to manage your software process: Scrum, CMMI, ISO, ITIL, SPICE, Six Sigma, Prince 2, etc.

This article discusses the clarity of requirements for software development and explains how you can use a four step process for gathering them with the four levels of agile requirements.