About Technical Craftsmanship It is my firm belief that in order to truly be agile in software development, you must follow modern, disciplined technical practices, many of which were originally ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in ...

Agile coding and the software factory approach to coding both offer strong benefits for developers, but following either to its extreme logical end can stunt productivity.

New development methods such as Extreme Programming and Agile Modeling are getting a closer look from companies trying to resolve applications development issues.

Extreme programming is a concept for executing project with simplicity, collaborative and in friendly environment. There is no fixed strategy or set of rules to execute extreme programming. Frequently ...

Interest may be growing within the ranks to adopt application development methods such as extreme programming and agile modeling, but most companies are taking a piecemeal approach to adopting ...

Agile processes — which are actually an offshoot of “eXtreme Programming” (XP), “Scrum” and other popular open-team development models—can be driven by, or themselves require, the enterprise adoption ...

For developers who want a way to move into high level system design languages such as the unified modeling language, Excel Software has just begun shipping QuickUML 2.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux ...