Agile software development has grown in popularity in recent years as businesses demand more flexibility and responsiveness to change from their IT systems. High-profile initiatives such as the Gov.uk ...

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 ...

Agile is emerging as the prevailing methodology for software development. According to the 12 th Annual State of Agile Report, a survey conducted by VersionOne and published earlier this year, 97% of ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...

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 ...

In the current context of the world of software development, the main factor of success is the ability to work together. Agile collaboration, especially in this case when working with a business ...

In my profession, I'm fortunate to spend a lot of time talking to people about what's involved with running agile teams. When given this opportunity, I often find myself describing two aspects of ...

It’s ironic that the idea of Agile—a central concept of competitiveness in the 21 st Century economy—which began in manufacturing in the early 1990s, took hold in software, not manufacturing. While ...

You need to augment the agile process with a set of disciplines and technologies to get the full value of the agile methodology If you are leading or participating in an agile development process and ...

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 ...