As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

Agile is an umbrella term, not a monolithic entity. The Agile Alliance describes Agile as “the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment,” ...

Everyone complains about bugs in their software. Some can be tolerated, but many go beyond annoying and cause productivity losses. If it’s bad being the user of buggy software, think what it must be ...

Helen Sun wanted to move fast. With 20 years of tech experience behind her, the CTO at Stats Perform knew that if you want to stand out from the competition, your team had to be brilliant — and be ...

To be flexible has become vital for a business in today’s global markets, and therefore, the ability for IT systems to be equally flexible is essential. The purpose of agile is to allow organisations ...

There are mountains of articles on the various software development life cycle methodologies, but nothing beats personal experience. While there may be no single SDLC methodology that fits all ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Historically, agencies have sometimes ...

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 ...