In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

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Today it is more surprising to hear that businesses are developing software using a methodology other than agile, such is its widespread use. With the rapid digitisation of business, agile software ...

You need to augment the agile process with a set of disciplines and technologies to get the full value of the agile methodology If you are leading or participating in an agile development process and ...

Agile software development has grown in popularity in recent years as businesses demand more flexibility and responsiveness to change from their IT systems. High-profile initiatives such as the Gov.uk ...

In the current context of the world of software development, the main factor of success is the ability to work together. Agile collaboration, especially in this case when working with a business ...

Since the term “microservices” hit the software industry like a bolt of lightning in 2014, technical professionals of all stripes have been analyzing this new architectural style from their own frames ...

It’s ironic that the idea of Agile—a central concept of competitiveness in the 21 st Century economy—which began in manufacturing in the early 1990s, took hold in software, not manufacturing. While ...

“Gone are the days of three-year $50 million software programs. Now, I want returns on investment within three to five months. We need to change the way we develop software so that we can get things ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...