The knee-jerk response by large CPG companies to cut IT costs in response to revenues and market share lost to smaller companies could make them more vulnerable than if they invested more in digital ...

Today it is more surprising to hear that businesses are developing software using a methodology other than agile, such is its widespread use. With the rapid digitisation of business, agile software ...

Workday was founded on the belief that happy and engaged employees lead to happy customers and stellar business results. Now, we’re taking that idea even further with our biggest effort yet to put our ...

To speed the development of a critical Web-based financial system for its dealers all over the world, Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. made Agile programming methods part of the project. Launched ...

Software analysis and measurement specialist Cast held its European CIO Forum in Brussels recently, where IT leaders from across the continent discussed strategies for successful digital ...

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For decades, the US Air Force and its lead aircraft supplier, Lockheed Martin, have struggled to efficiently write the code that runs their aircraft. The result is numerous cost overruns, delays and ...

As technical jargon goes, “agile development” has a great ring to it. Even to business managers, it sounds dynamic and vibrant — just the thing to speed up production and rescue a flagging software ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

While this list is far from exhaustive, the important thing to understand is that agile isn’t a rigid book of rules and regulations From the outside, agile might look like a single set of practices.

The key for sustainable organizational growth is the intrinsic development of people. This is the challenge for managers today. The software industry regards Agile methodologies as an approach for ...