The Agile Architect Mob Programming as a More Agile Replacement for a Team Charter A team charter is a common tool of an agile team to create consensus on how the team will do its work. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ADAPT: Analysis Driven Agile Programming Techniques A growing body of research indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments.

Agility counts In the latest of our series on managing innovation, we look at agile programming. This is the culmination of many faddish ideas for producing software more efficiently. But behind ...

It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements ...

Studies show agile development works, and yet few companies follow its principles. Read this article to learn how your organization can manage the agile way.

Agile processes — which are actually an offshoot of “eXtreme Programming” (XP), “Scrum” and other popular open-team development models—can be driven by, or themselves require, the enterprise adoption ...

Agile programming was discussed during one of McConnell’s worst-idea items: Software practices are based on the assumption that developers are omniscient and can know all requirements before ...