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 ...

Agile adherents and evangelists don't tend to publicly discuss the limitations and misapplications of agile; it's an oversight that only perpetuates the cycle. One place agile is great is young ...

Businesses need varying growth styles over time. A small team of three people might not need scaling or management solutions ...

The big question, of course, is whether mob programming will help your team. My agile coach's answer to this is, try it, measure it, and see what happens. The Experiment: Can We Use Mob Programming as ...

Editor’s Note: Over the past decade, agile development has proven itself as an effective approach for delivering software quickly, at high quality and responsive to fast-changing customer and market ...

On paper, the Capability Maturity Model Index seems about as different from XP and other agile programming disciplines as it can be. This is true to some degree in practice, too, because CMMI and ...

Flexible leadership and empowered teams are the hallmarks of Agile management. It's a concept that's increasingly popular - and not just in software development.

Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed Consulting last week when he asked whether Agile has done enough to promote itself, I have an additional ...

Agile programming is cost-effective and produces higher quality software, Ambler said. “You end up with software that meets the changing needs of your stakeholders,” he said.

In other words, it is all well and good to talk about how you are using agile methods or implementing devops, but if you’re development budget doesn’t have a line item for iteratively ...