Brian Spears shares his company's adoption of extreme programming nine years ago and how his teams have evolved the process to suit their context. He shares the underlying keys to their success ...

About Technical Craftsmanship It is my firm belief that in order to truly be agile in software development, you must follow modern, disciplined technical practices, many of which were originally ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in ...

With methods like agile development, partnering of development and testing, and the involvement of end-users, software developers are taking steps to improve their product.

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 ...

An intuitive UML tool, well suited to agile development methods or extreme programming, it incorporate features that automate much of the process of UML generation. A tabbed window provides tight ...

New development methods such as Extreme Programming and Agile Modeling are getting a closer look from companies trying to resolve applications development issues.

Giga predicted this week that more than two-thirds of all corporate IT organizations will use some form of "agile" software development process within 18 months.

Agile coding and the software factory approach to coding both offer strong benefits for developers, but following either to its extreme logical end can stunt productivity.

The Agile mindset has transformed the way software development teams work, delivering better results and higher customer satisfaction.