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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agile software development, which aims to offer a much quicker style of delivering software than traditional methods, has not yet met its promise, said Steve McConnell, author and chief software ...