Agile methods software development (also called Agile Modelling, denoted AG for short) reduce software lifecycle time (thus speeding up development) by firstly creating a prototype version, then ...

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 ...

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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 ...

As technical jargon goes, “agile development” has a great ring to it. Even to business managers, it sounds dynamic and vibrant — just the thing to speed up production and rescue a flagging software ...

Implementing the agile process for software development efforts is just the beginning. To achieve the requisite collaboration between business and IT, to succeed using agile methods across multiple ...

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, Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. made Agile methods a part of its project plan. Launched at year’s end, the application suite, ...

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WASHINGTON -- The recession has changed a lot of things about IT, particularly in the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who have an encyclopedic-like range of skills. That change is ...

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 ...