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 ...

In today’s world, it unfortunately takes more than a chivalrous heart to attain the Holy Grail of software development: productive development of high-quality applications. I recently spent some time ...

Twenty-one years ago, 17 software engineers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, more commonly known as the Agile Manifesto. Responding to the bureaucratic waterfall model of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Not all software works. Clearly we have all used ...