Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government is actively adopting agile development for IT software projects. But transforming to agile development is hard for agencies with a long history of “detailed-requirements-first ...

Editor’s note: The state Department of Technology has published "Nine Myths About Agile." On Tuesday, Techwire published Myth 1. Today, we publish all nine. They're available as part of an online ...

Like many of their peers, software developers at the TexasEducation Agency (TEA) previously started a project by documenting detailed requirements. Only when they finished that labor-intensive phase ...

Kal Patel, M.D., is CEO and cofounder of BrightInsight. He has over 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and regulated digital health. Digital transformation has taken hold in almost every ...

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 ...