Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

After all these years of the Waterfall or Agile debate, there's no doubt that both have their pros and cons. So, it's surprising there are still evangelists on each side dead set against finding ...

Agile methodologies for software development offer a number of benefits for medical device companies. Here are some best practices for making the transition. Clark Fortney and Rainy Mumper Many ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...

Once upon a time, software development consisted of a programmer writing code to solve a problem or automate a procedure. Nowadays, systems are so big and complex that teams of architects, analysts, ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile development ...

I’m just going to come out and say it — the co-located development model is a waste of resources and offers negligible benefits. Is this statement controversial? Sure, but it’s getting less so by the ...

When the Agile Manifesto came out in 2001, it stated that one of the 12 principles of agile software is that “the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” At ...

Software might be eating the world, but most businesses are sitting out the feeding frenzy because they can’t release software fast enough to meet changing customer needs. No matter what kind of ...

Cheltenham, UK – Artisan Software Tools has launched the Version 7.1 upgrade of its Artisan Studio model-driven development tool suite. It includes such new modeling features as comprehensive support ...