Lately, the term "continuous" has popped to the top of vendors' and pundits' lists as the software architecture we all should and want to have. The problem is that many assume "continuous" means rapid ...

Nobody likes bureaucracies, least of all software developers. All good software starts with a spark of innovation and a notion of design, and red tape has a nasty habit of stifling that spark. That’s ...

Agile methodologies constitute a family of approaches that prioritise iterative development, cross-functional collaboration and adaptive planning to deliver software in small, incremental increments.

Six different Agile project management methodologies exist, each of which offers specific project management approaches for software development teams. This cheat sheet summarizes the key principles ...

The Agile Manifesto, which lays out 12 principles for agile software development, was written in 2001, a time when many people were still using dial-up internet. While these principles still influence ...

The traditional model for software development is the waterfall approach, where development “flows” downward like a waterfall through six phases: analysis, design, implementation, validation testing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of agile development’s core principles is to deliver working software at the end of every sprint. Teams accomplish this by defining robust user story acceptance criteria, committing to the sprint ...

Ernie Smith is a former senior editor and journalist who has contributed to publications such as Vice Magazine. He is a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Collaboration ...

Scrum is a project management methodology that can be used to organize teams during project planning and delivery, in which projects are split into smaller groups of tasks typically completed by teams ...

Any developer on a team that practices Scrum, XP, Kanban or Lean-based software development methodologies should be familiar with the Agile Manifesto and the Agile principles it espouses. But not all ...