Mansour Raad had a big problem. His start-up firm, DiscoverCast, was developing collision-detection software for the airline industry-mistakes in the code could cost lives. But money dried up after a ...

Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

When extreme programming (XP) catapulted onto the software development scene, it appeared to answer many project failure modes—such as documentation overkill, lack of clear customer requirements, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Agile adoption is on the rise in large enterprises. Robert C. Martin and his son Micah Martin are the co-authors of a new book that puts Agile practices to work in a .NET environment. Senior Editor ...

It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements, collaboration with ...

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 ...

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