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 ...

It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements, collaboration with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

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 ...

Agile programming was discussed during one of McConnell’s worst-idea items: Software practices are based on the assumption that developers are omniscient and can know all requirements before building ...