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Magazines

• IEEE Software is a bimonthly refereed periodical that has increased its emphasis on practicality in recent years. Well-written papers and columns include experience reports, how-to pieces, research studies, survey results, and opinion essays.
• The Rational Edge is a monthly online magazine published by IBM. Not just a house organ, it features a wide variety of articles and columns on various software development and management topics, as well as articles on the use of IBM Rational's tools and processes.
• Better Software (formerly STQE, formerly Software Testing & Quality Engineering, formerly Software QA, formerly The Software QA Quarterly -- pick a name, guys!) is an excellent periodical that addresses many current topics on software quality and testing. Its high-quality articles are complemented by a great visual design.
• CrossTalk is subtitled "The Journal of Defense Software Engineering", but it includes many useful articles on process improvement, even if you aren't in the defense software business. The articles are relatively short and easy to read.

Requirements Engineering Resources

• SearchSoftwareQuality.com
  A resource with many articles and expert tips on requirements, testing, QA, project management, and other aspects of software quality.
• ModernAnalyst.com
  A community for business and systems analysts, with forums, blogs, books, training courses, and other resources.
• Seilevel
  Seilevel specializes in providing requirements development services to software teams. They also have an active requirements discussion board and blog.
• The Requirements Networking Group
  Articles, forums, blogs, and tool vendor links "for the professional development of people who capture and manage requirements for complex and critical systems development projects."
• INCOSE's Requirements Management Tools Feature Comparisons
  A feature comparison for some 25 requirements management tools, including Borland CaliberRM, Telelogic DOORS, IBM Rational RequisitePro, Serena Dimensions, Gatherspace, and 20 others
• Atlantic Systems Guild's Requirements Management Tool Descriptions
  Descriptions of many tools useful for dealing with requirements.
• Requirements Development Tools: Some of the products that can assist with requirements elicitation, analysis, modeling, simulation, and validation are Blueprint Requirements Center, Serlio Software Case Complete, Raven, and iRise.
NASA's Automated Requirement Measurement Tool is a simple tool to scan requirements documents for possible problems.
• SmartCheck from Smartware Technologies is an automated document review tool that locates potential ambiguities in a requirements specification with the help of an extensive and customizable dictionary of terms that often lead to confusion and misunderstanding.

Process and Quality Improvement Resources

• Brad Appleton's Software Process Links
  More than 100 links to process resources, models, tutorials, papers, and more.
• Clarrus Consulting Group
  Jim Brosseau, Principal of the Clarrus Consulting Group, offers a variety of high-quality process improvement consulting and training services.
• Codefast.com
  Codefast offers highly sophisticated products that totally automate software builds and various other software development processes, on more than 20 platforms.
• Construx Software Builders
  Steve McConnell's site; many useful checklists and other items available here.
• Methods and Tools
  Franco Martinig's on-line magazine "provides free practical knowledge and information on all topics of application development and software engineering" with some in-depth articles by various industry writers.
• NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory
  The SEL has a variety of resources and guidebooks on process improvement, measurement, and software development; useful for high and low maturity organizations.
• Result-Planning.com
  This is the web site for Tom and Kai Gilb. Tom has been one of the leading thinkers and authors in the software industry for decades. This site provides a wealth of free downloads and thought-provoking ideas and practices.
• Software Engineering Institute
  The SEI provides information about various capability maturity models and many technical reports on a wide variety of software engineering and process improvement topics.
• Software Productivity Center
  A process improvement consulting company in Vancouver, BC, SPC offers many good public seminars and useful process improvement products.
• SR/Institute's Software Quality HotList
  Links to many web sites with software quality information; "the first stop in technical development related to software testing and software quality issues."
  
• The Software Quality Page
  Another list of links to software quality resources.
• StickyMinds.com
  Brought to you by the publishers of Better Software magazine, StickyMinds.com is "the online resource for building better software". It provides a wide variety of resources for all aspects of software quality improvement.

Project Management Resources

• Rothman Consulting Group
  Johanna Rothman is a consultant, speaker, and author on software quality and project management. Her web site has a lot of her articles and other useful things.
• Catalysis Group
  Payson Hall of Catalysis Group is an outstanding speaker and expert project management consultant and trainer.