As organizations face growing demands for speed, quality and adaptability, traditional performance improvement methods and Agile development practices alone often fall short. While Agile methodologies ...

One challenge agile leaders and teams face is how to define and follow data and architectural patterns and standards in agile development. There’s a belief that it’s hard to drive data and technical ...

While all of the recent Microsoft buzz centers on Windows 7, the company made a small but important announcement this week. At TechEd Europe in Germany, Microsoft announced that it has adapted its SDL ...

Despite efforts to re-engineer software development with new methodologies and tools, projects still warp time lines thanks to bureaucracy, new demands, and the nature of code.

The development process known as agile has been around IT for more than a decade. While most standard agile frameworks seem to omit the project manager role and the structure provided by traditional ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

Software development teams and operations/system administrators have historically pushed each other in opposing yet complementary directions. While development teams focus on delivering new features ...

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 ...

In July 2019, the Cuyahoga County Council learned that its enterprise resource planning system would take four more months to complete and would cost an additional $7.7 million. The delay was on top ...

When perusing the book “Agility Across Time and Space” recently, I came upon a very effective way of summarizing some of the differences between farshore and nearshore outsourcing that I’ve been ...