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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 ...

The methods technology companies use to develop new software for their customers have changed in recent years, making applying the rules for capitalization of software development cost more ...

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 ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

While all of the recent Microsoft buzz centers on Windows 7, the company made a small but important announcement this week. At TechEd Europe in Germany, Microsoft announced that it has adapted its SDL ...

Utilizing agile principles can drive radical but constructive cultural changes, but how you go about adopting the technique is critical to success When the Agile Manifesto was introduced almost 15 ...

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 ...

Many medical device companies develop software using a traditional waterfall methodology in which each step is taken in sequence: requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation ...