Agile and Scrum are not competing concepts. In fact, to implement the Scrum methodology properly, you must approach it with an Agile mindset. To do Scrum right, product development teams must be Agile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maine CIO Jim Smith has managed software development projects for 35 years, mostly in Fortune 500 companies. For much of that time, he wanted a better approach. “We have always struggled with finding ...

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Agile software development methodology is becoming one of the widely used software development methodologies because of its light weight methods and its focus on customer satisfaction. Continuous ...

Agile methodologies allow project participants to adjust their activities in response to situations that arise during the project management process. One such methodology is Scrum, named after the ...

Agile is increasingly the standard way software development organizations deliver software. In a recent survey by TechBeacon, two-thirds of organizations said they are using "pure agile" or "leaning ...

Eager to outpace and outsmart competitors, many organizations are migrating from traditional, sequential “Waterfall” methodologies to the iterative framework of Agile. In fact, according to the ...

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 ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. For business leaders ...

The development process known as agile has been around IT for more than a decade. While most standard agile frameworks seem to omit the project manager role and the structure provided by traditional ...