Topic: agile

Scaling enterprise agile

For years businesses have been practicing agile, seeing notable success in time to market, productivity and creativity at the team level. Now they want to expand the scope of those benefits. If you asked development teams a year or two ago to identify the biggest agile obstacle, most of them would have said getting management … continue reading

Technical debt: What it is and why you should care

Technical debt is often the elephant in the room that we choose to ignore, but we do so at our own peril. Technical debt is directly responsible for many of the problems we have in building high-quality software quickly, especially as companies move to more agile methodologies. Having problems releasing quickly? Can’t complete your testing … continue reading

QSM adds agile to its Software Almanac

It has been eight years since Quantitative Software Management (QSM) released its Software Almanac, and now the company is putting out an updated version that includes a new section on agile development. The Software Almanac is a compilation of QSM’s years of research and historical data about software projects designed to provide customers with an … continue reading

Scrum and the enterprise

The race to be the best, deliver high-quality software and to be the first to market has many organizations turning to different methodologies in order to speed up the development process. One methodology organizations have been flocking to in particular is Scrum. “I always will recommend Scrum if an organization is new to Agile and … continue reading

Developing FROM the Cloud

Microsoft describes its Visual Studio Online offering as being “based on the capabilities of Team Foundation Server with additional cloud services.” Productivity across teams is a competitive advantage that is not just nice to have anymore, and a big key to productivity is providing the tools needed for Agile development. The drive to do more, … continue reading

Tasktop 4.0 sets the standard for DevOps integration and unlocks the data behind the software delivery process

VANCOUVER, BC, October 28, 2014 – Tasktop, the leader in DevOps Integration and the creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool, today announces Tasktop 4.0, a major product release for the company. Tasktop 4.0 advances the state of integration technology through an updated version of Tasktop Sync, the company’s DevOps Integration bus, and the … continue reading

VersionOne aims to align agile in latest release

VersionOne recently announced its 2014 Fall Release designed to simplify scaling agile by aligning agile and traditional project teams. “A key to successful enterprise-level agile is breaking down information silos within organizations in order to accelerate decision-making and improve business and IT alignment,” said Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne. “Our latest release takes a significant … continue reading

CollabNet’s ‘Enterprise Agility Assessment’ Scales Agile, DevOps And Open Source Strategies To Speed Software Delivery

OUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– CollabNet, the leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Enterprise Agility, today announced its “Enterprise Agility Assessment” services package that helps software organizations streamline company-wide software delivery and increase responsiveness to customer needs. The services package includes a structured assessment of an organization’s current software delivery effectiveness, based on CollabNet’s Blueprint … continue reading

Cloudera and Red Hat Forge Big Data Alliance

PALO ALTO, Calif., and RALEIGH, N.C. –– Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop, and Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an alliance to deliver joint enterprise software solutions including data integration and application development tools, and data platforms. By integrating a broad … continue reading

Guest View: Agile Chemistry – It’s the mix that matters

We hear frequent claims about the quality of software produced with Agile methods. Most of the sparse data on the subject come either from case studies, questionnaires, or university-based experiments. We finally have some industrial data comparing the structural quality of Agile and Waterfall methods, and the results are mixed—or rather they support mixed. Every … continue reading

Guest View: Have we been looking at databases wrong this entire time?

What worked in the past may not work in the present. That’s certainly true for how I, and many of my colleagues in the industry, have looked at databases. As a software engineer and database architect by trade, I see clear analogies of how the software and database communities came to realize that traditional approaches … continue reading

Guest View: Learning from Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We all remember “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: the timeless fairy tale in which a little girl stumbles upon the home of three bears while they’re gone. She proceeds to try bowls of porridge, chairs and beds—experiencing too hot, too cold, too lumpy and too soft—until she finds the taste and fit that’s “just right.” … continue reading

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