A team charter is a common tool of an agile team to create consensus on how the team will do its work. Unfortunately, the act of creating a team charter can be lengthy and dull. Our Agile Architect ...

Software companies are eager to hop on the agile development train, providing wares to help clients leverage agile development processes such as Scrum in their IT shops. With agile projects software ...

Presentation at the Academy of Technology Conference covers iterative development methodology that favors more frequent release cycles of less comprehensive updates IBM is undoubtedly one of the ...

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of ...

Everyone’s got a smartphone app, or so it seems, but sometimes the most useful mobile technology doesn’t come in app form. That’s one of the key takeaways from a live demonstration of “agile ...

Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed Consulting last week when he asked whether Agile has done enough to promote itself, I have an additional rant ...

Within the product development labs of an institution like Key Bank, much of the work is half-baked. And that’s the point. Banks and financial services companies like Key are deploying new products ...

A growing body of research indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments. Yet our systems and tools are often too rigid to ...

Aid and development organizations tackle a broad range of complex problems in demanding operating environments. However, the standard tools and processes we use are ill-suited to the task we face. The ...

Is it really a good idea to team up two developers to work on the same piece of source code, actually sitting together and watching one another type? Programmers are known by some for being ...

AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. — More than two-thirds of all corporate IT organizations will use some form of “agile” software development process within 18 months, Giga Information Group Inc. predicted this ...

Agile software development, which aims to offer a much quicker style of delivering software than traditional methods, has not yet met its promise, said Steve McConnell, author and chief software ...