Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

As tech companies grow, they often start overcomplicating and overbuilding software. The goal of such companies should be to create a tech process that allows flexibility and improves efficiency. To ...

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A discipline for developing systems based on producing deliverables often. Each iteration, consisting of requirements, analysis & design, implementation and testing, results in the release of an ...

Dealing with any form of product management that champions incremental and iterative approaches may make consistency of user experience and brand integrity seem impossible to maintain. Having spent ...

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Information systems development methodologies (ISDMs) encompass a broad spectrum of systematic frameworks designed to guide the planning, design, implementation, testing and maintenance of complex IT ...

Over half of CIOs have discredited agile development, according to a survey commissioned by London-based technology services firm, 6Point6. Three-quarters of the 300 UK and US-based CIOs surveyed said ...