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 ...

The original Agile Manifesto conveys its philosophical underpinnings: In an interview with ComputerWorld magazine, Kent Beck, inventor of Extreme Programming and a strong proponent of agile ...

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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 ...

Information Systems Research, Vol. 20, No. 3, Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development (September 2009), pp. 355-376 (22 pages) Despite the popularity of agile methods in software ...

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,” ...

What is the best Agile methodology? Answering this question is a little like explaining what tool is right for the job without first knowing what the job is. All Agile methodologies share much of the ...

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 ...

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