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A key characteristic of classical project management is its sequential and linear approach to project planning and execution. It involves detailed upfront planning, such as creation of a comprehensive ...

Your software needs to deliver more than mere functionality: it must keep customers engaged. What is the primary goal of the software development team at your company? Until fairly recently, the ...

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Shallow backlogs, missed commitments, low morale, and defects may indicate your agile process needs more than a few minor tweaks. Do you call your agile development process “fragile,” “hybrid ...

Pressure grows for software better aligned with business. Agile techniques have been stagnant for a decade. AI may speed up Agile team output. Agile has always had the best intentions: work side by ...

Many medical device companies develop software using a traditional waterfall methodology in which each step is taken in sequence: requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

Before devops, development teams often implemented security practices in the final stages of an application release process, usually as a required step by a change advisory board (CAB). Because ...

About 15 years ago, if someone had told David Schofield, an advanced surfacing designer at Trek Bicycle, that one day he and his team would owe their product design process to 17 software developers ...

Created by a small group of software practitioners and thought leaders in 2001 with their publication of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Agile is designed to deliver continuous ...