Agile

Mon, May 21, 2012 - Unless you want to build a software system that quickly becomes a fossil (or a monster), you should avoid doing these five things that usually seem like a good idea at the time.

Fri, May 18, 2012 - Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need help.

Fri, May 11, 2012 - Things that won't die are great for the movies, but bad ideas that won't go away can really hurt cloud projects. Unfortunately, management likes classic, counterproductive waterfall project management and binary go-live deployments for cloud projects.

Wed, May 09, 2012 - If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of the answers.

Mon, May 07, 2012 - Lotus F1's IT team made a technology pit stop and changed from a traditional application development strategy to an agile approach. Why shift gears? The pit crew and car designer wanted better data faster -- and IT wasn't about to pass on the opportunity.

Thu, April 05, 2012 - User experience designer Greg Laugero says 'Lean UX'--the next big thing in application development--places the emphasis on quickly developing the right thing for the target user. It holds significant promise for getting better applications to market faster.

Tue, February 28, 2012 - The beta of Microsoft's integrated development environment, code-named Visual Studio 11, will focus on helping developers build modern consumer and business applications, providing a simplified and distraction-free environment and enabling collaborative and agile development teams, according to Microsoft.

Wed, February 01, 2012 - Michael Fagan first found software inspections yielded a massive productivity improvement when working for IBM in the early 1970s. Now, 35 years later, we need to ask certain key questions: Are the dynamics of software development the same, are Fagan's findings still relevant in today's world of agile development and "extreme programming"? And, if so, what should your organization do about it?

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.