Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

The software development life cycle (SDLC) provides a structured roadmap for building, testing, and maintaining software that meets business and user needs. From planning to maintenance, each phase ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Agile gets all the press, but Waterfall has proven to be a fairly trustworthy approach to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an attempt to prove that I can turn any weekend away into a software development blog, I couldn’t pass up the chance to mention that these last few days I have been lucky enough to take a road trip ...

The methods technology companies use to develop new software for their customers have changed in recent years, making applying the rules for capitalization of software development cost more ...