Agile software development

WANdisco announced that an increasing number of its customers are implementing Subversion MultiSite and Subversion Clustering to support agile practices across their large distributed development organizations. At the core of agile software development is constant collaboration between developers and continuous build integration. These customers found that a centralized server or even a proxy-server architecture was unable to effectively...  

HICSS-43 Agile Papers ScheduleTrack:   Software TechnologyMinitrack:  Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and ScalableCo-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle BenefieldJanuary 5-8, 2010The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Kaloa, Kauai, HawaiiHICSS-43 offers a unique, highly interactive and professionally challenging environment that attendees find "very helpful -- lots of different perspectives and ideas as a result of discussion...  

This episode is a conversation with "Uncle Bob" Bob Martin about agile software development and software craftsmanship specifically. We talk about the history of the term, the reasons for coming up with it some of the practices and the relationship to other agile approaches. We conclude our discussion with an outlook on some of todays new and hyped programming languages.  

WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability and high availability, today announced that an increasing number of its customers are implementing Subversion MultiSite and Subversion Clustering to support agile practices across their large distributed development organizations. At the core of agile software development is constant collaboration between developers and continuous build integration. These...  

We all know great characteristics of the object oriented programming such as encapsulation, polymorphism, and etc. Also there are "best practices and guidelines" for software development. I believe these are really awesome features that we can benefit from in many aspects, especially making the design more simple, understandable, and easier to maintain. However, many factors can affect how we use these models and practices. One that I came...  

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Agile Alliance, (www.agilealliance.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced six new members to the Agile Alliance. In addition, three board members, Diana Larsen, Todd Little and Tamara Sulaiman, have been appointed asread more  

There’s lots of buzz in the startup community about agile software development; there are software programs, books and seminars on the topic, and even huge firms like IBM are now touting their "agile development solutions". The general idea is to...  

Cath Everett, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 13:47:00 SDL extended to include popular development methodology Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group has released new guidance to enable programmers using the Agile software development methodology to employ its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process....  

Agile is based upon a number of guiding principles that all Agile teams follow. For the purposes of this discussion, three principles - or values - are of particular interest:• Quality software development• Iterative flexibility• Continuous improvementQuality Software Development The primary focus of Agile development is to enable the development of quality software that satisfies a customer need - i.e. provides a functioning feature or...  

FT. MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SoftServe, Inc., a provider of software consulting, development, testing and lifecycle services to IT decision-makers, today announced that leading independent software vendors (ISVs) recently predicted agile development and mobile data as the trends that will have the most impact on their businesses in the coming year. Attendees at the SoftServe Innovations Conference, which was held on Nov. 11-13, 2009, at...  

When I encounter people who are skeptical about agile software development, one of the common concerns I hear is about the lack of planning and design in advance. How can we create software with a coherent design when we don't "really" design? I commented on this concern a while back when mused about reactive planning in AI and software. Reading last week, I ran across a passage from Lewis Mumford's book "The City in History" that...