Brian White

Do you find yourself tired after sitting in meetings all day? Do you have feelings of uselessness after weeks of bug fixing? Do you often find yourself feeling lonely, as if you've lost touch with your team and the status of your project? Are you frustrated by frequent fire drills and the sense that your project is in utter chaos? Are you hopelessly lost in a sea of changing policies and procedures with no end in sight? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be clinically depressed and require extensive psychological counseling. Or maybe, just maybe, you are using the wrong software life-cycle tools. As part of the Visual Studio Team System 2005 release, Microsoft will introduce a new server product designed specifically to improve software team collabor... (more)

The Change Management Balancing Act

Managing change in a software system is a lot like balancing your personal finances. With or without a resource allocation plan, the assets available and the demands placed on them change constantly. Whether it's your code or your checkbook, the result of mismanaging change over time is likely to be the same: disaster. The complexity and volatility of today's business demands have rendere... (more)