Agile software development still more a feel-good term than reality
'It breaks my heart to see the ideas we wrote about in the Agile Manifesto used to make developers' lives worse, instead of better,' a co-author of the 2001 Agile Manifesto laments.
'It breaks my heart to see the ideas we wrote about in the Agile Manifesto used to make developers' lives worse, instead of better,' a co-author of the 2001 Agile Manifesto laments.
Recent survey finds enterprises encourage or look the other way as non-IT applications flourish.
Do IT professionals see a place for citizen developers, or is this more fantasy than productive reality?
Java VMs, the original application 'containers,' are now facing stiff competition from a new generation of containers.
New survey of more than 2,100 JVM developers finds at least half now embrace microservices to boost their speed and agility.
Time for more DevOps? 'Sometimes the support teams are caught by surprise by changes being pushed into production as everyone else is.'
Recent survey of 1,000 .NET developers finds close to one-third continue to focus their work on-prem. The major challenge looming is being able to run apps across differing devices.
'Citizen developers' are building or tweaking their own productivity apps, and a large segment are also getting involved in run-the-business app development.
How to make Agile stick: both IT professionals and their employers need a 'software craftsman' mindset that addresses each project with extreme quality and care -- despite deadline pressures.
For Amazon, service oriented architectural approaches to software design and development was a given. Deploying these solutions was a bear, however.