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 ...

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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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Personnel issues with software programming teams remains a sore point with development projects, panelists and audience members agreed during a session at the SD West 2005 ...