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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 growing body of research indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments. Yet our systems and tools are often too rigid to ...

Within the product development labs of an institution like Key Bank, much of the work is half-baked. And that’s the point. Banks and financial services companies like Key are deploying new products ...

AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. — More than two-thirds of all corporate IT organizations will use some form of “agile” software development process within 18 months, Giga Information Group Inc. predicted this ...

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 ...