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 ...

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After a disastrous infatuation with computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools in the early ’90s, most IT organizations realized they had put too much faith in “silver bullet” tools, and decided ...

Information Systems Research, Vol. 20, No. 3, Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development (September 2009), pp. 355-376 (22 pages) Despite the popularity of agile methods in software ...

Followers of my Digital Influencer series for Forbes might have noticed that many of the thought leaders I interview come from the software development world. That’s no coincidence. After all, today’s ...