Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

Kal Patel, M.D., is CEO and cofounder of BrightInsight. He has over 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and regulated digital health. Digital transformation has taken hold in almost every ...

It is one of the key enterprise software development trends of the past decade, but devops is still often misunderstood. Here ...

Agile development methodologies proved their strength during the coronavirus pandemic. Now they could provide the key to unlocking the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI). When COVID-19 sent ...

Agile adoption is on the rise in large enterprises. Robert C. Martin and his son Micah Martin are the co-authors of a new book that puts Agile practices to work in a .NET environment. Senior Editor ...

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 ...

Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment. Given the high incidence of failure, innovative methods ...

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 ...

Projects that use the Agile development process fail 65% of the time versus lean engineering at 21% and a new method called Impact Engineering at 10%, according to a new study conducted for the book ...

To speed the development of a critical Web-based financial system for its dealers all over the world, Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. made Agile programming methods part of the project. Launched ...