Agile

Thu, January 26, 2012 - The whole point of the cloud is that it's location-independent and flexible. But that strength is also a weakness when design decisions are highly distributed and need to be coordinated.

Fri, August 27, 2010 - No new venture can succeed unless IT development methods are aligned with business innovation processes.

Fri, January 22, 2010 - A new Forrester report finds widespread use of the iterative software development processes

Wed, September 16, 2009 - Inter-personal relationships between IT and business partners play a critical--yet often overlooked--role in the execution of projects. Agile development methodologies such as Scrum can bring IT and business partners together and help improve project success rates.

Thu, April 30, 2009 - Agile development experts discussed the advantages and drawbacks associated with the programming methodology at a recent IBM event.

Tue, March 31, 2009 - Adobe has partnered with one of the most popular social networking Web sites, Facebook, to give developers a new set of tools to create applications.

Tue, January 27, 2009 - If your organization is adopting Agile methods, you may need to add new filters to the job interview process to hire for collaborative talent over technology skills. Menlo Innovations' Richard Sheridan and Lisamarie Babik explain how "extreme interviewing" can help hiring managers choose Agile developers ready to apply its principles.

Fri, January 23, 2009 - Agile development used to be relegated to small-scope software development projects. No longer, says IBM's vice president of development transformation and integration. She argues that Agile can adapt to the most complex of development projects.

Wed, January 14, 2009 - The CIO at transportation company Con-way took her development team on a nine-month ride to implementing Agile—a journey that required well-honed change leadership skills

Tue, November 18, 2008 - Your software development projects can benefit from Agile - assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile" as explained by two of the Agile manifesto's original signatories.

Mon, November 03, 2008 - This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative team that can evangelize Agile in the company and shepherd the software engineering methodology through enterprise software development projects.

Mon, September 29, 2008 - Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed us a sneak peek, and we invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Fri, September 26, 2008 - OppenheimerFunds learned at least two lessons in its deployment of service-oriented architecture: Let business drive technology instead of the reverse, and switch to Agile development processes early.

Wed, September 24, 2008 - Just about every educational toy that Leapfrog will release in 2008 will be Web-enabled. Learn how the company is leveraging the Internet to share information between teachers, parents and children by building a service-oriented architecture the old fashioned way: Fast. One reason for its success: open-source tools and Agile methodology.