Every manager knows about the nightmare programming project. The project that takes twice as long as expected, has massive cost overruns—and there’s no end in sight. When you presented the partial ...

Agile programming, in which teams build software in short iterations rather than mapping everything out in advance from start to finish, offers benefits like flexibility but poses organizational ...

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 ...

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...

On paper, the Capability Maturity Model Index seems about as different from XP and other agile programming disciplines as it can be. This is true to some degree in practice, too, because CMMI and ...

A COMMON cause of disaster in software development is that the end product is precisely what the customer originally ordered. In a world moving at Internet speed, a customer's objectives are ...

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 ...

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda or Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of research ...

A growing body of research indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments. Yet our systems and tools are often too rigid to ...

Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed Consulting last week when he asked whether Agile has done enough to promote itself, I have an additional rant ...