Best of the Web this Week (09-21)

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There are tons of great articles on business analysis and other topics of interest for project professionals that come out each week. It’s impossible to keep up with all of them, but I like to occasionally point out a few I’ve come across that I think align fairly well with what you folks (PA readers) like. Enjoy!

• Dean Leffingwell walks us through the stages of disillusionment with waterfall development.

• Thanks to Martin for pointing out this nifty web application for creating and publishing basic UML diagrams.

• Friend of Practical Analyst, Doug Goldberg (@DougGtheBA) makes his blogging debut at Bridging the Gap discussing ways to smooth the waters between business and IT. While you’re there, check out Laura’s post on creating a user interface spec.

• Have a look at an interesting explanation of  virtualization and cloud computing using Legos.

• Page through Alistair Cockburn’s slides on software engineering in the 21st century .

• How can you pass up reading an article titled, “Chuck Norris Syndrome and IT Project Failure.”

• Docstoc is an interesting resource for finding documents on almost any topic. I’ve started posting nice, printable PDF versions of some of my blog posts there.

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