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 ...

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 ...

AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. — More than two-thirds of all corporate IT organizations will use some form of “agile” software development process within 18 months, Giga Information Group Inc. predicted this ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...