Methods & Tools is a very interesting newsletter on software engineering topics published by Franco Martinig. The newsletter is distributed electronically to some ten-thousand people. In the latest issue an article about practical experiences in configuration management is published.
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase cooperation with European industry. ERCIM publishes a quarterly newsletter on a variety of topics, like Diagnosis, Planning and Simulation of Industrial Systems (January 2004), Computer Games (April 2004) or E-Government (January 2002).
The CH/OPEN (Swiss Open Systems User Group) developed two project guidelines: one for Iterative Incremental Proceeding, and one for eXtreme Programming. Besides, there are some templates for the most common work results of development projects. The direct link to /www.ch-open.ch/~chop/ is only known by insiders.
The aerospace sector gives us steadily new impulses, which also can be useful for other business sectors. Take a closer look on the website dealing with ECSS-Standards are offered with the ESA publications. For IT in general, especially Engineering (E) and Quality (Q), e.g. E-40 or Q-80, are considerably useful.
In issue 6/99 of the magazine "Informatik" you can find various articles dealing with software quality. The publication of Hans Stienen 'After CMM and BOOTSTRAP: SPiCE' and other articles from Martin Glinz, Walter Bischofberger and Karol Frühauf can be found on the website of the Schweizerischen Verbands der Informatikorganisationen (Swiss Association of Computer Science Organisations).
