Software development methodologies have become essential for development teams for a reason: they organize the process and help in getting the best possible outcomes. Yet, they aren't all alike.

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 ...

Everyone talks about agile development, but how does it really work? Learn how teams use scrum, kanban, and other agile methodologies to deliver better software. It’s hard to believe that the agile ...

Agile is a popular approach to project management that prioritizes flexibility, short work sprints, and gathering feedback. Agile project management is a broad category that encompasses many specific ...

“Innovation,” says Curtis Carlson, former president of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and author of the classic book, Innovation (Crown, 2006), “is the primary driver of prosperity, job growth, ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...

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 ...