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In recent years, the Agile methodology has taken the software development world by storm. Agile is a project management approach that prioritizes flexibility, collaboration and adaptability over ...

While all of the recent Microsoft buzz centers on Windows 7, the company made a small but important announcement this week. At TechEd Europe in Germany, Microsoft announced that it has adapted its SDL ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile development ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

Many leaders are hoping that the worst of COVID-19 is behind us, and leaders are now considering their return-to-work policies, flexible working practices, and ongoing adoption of collaborating ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The difference between being Agile and doing Agile is akin to the difference between simply ...

About 15 years ago, if someone had told David Schofield, an advanced surfacing designer at Trek Bicycle, that one day he and his team would owe their product design process to 17 software developers ...

“We must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place,” says the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. “And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast.” According to Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, ...

We're still a ways off from fully realizing the vision of the well-regarded Agile Manifesto -- which outlined and encouraged the practice of working closely and informally with end users to ...