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Building Better Business Apps: How Apps Impact BYOD

|   When adjusting to a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) work environment, it’s time to also become more aware of the apps available on these devices.

Software Developers Need to Prepare for Rigorous Recruiting Process

|   It's a software developer's job market, but IT hiring managers still act like it's an employer's market where they can put candidates through the paces.

Agile IT Strategy Achieves Major Objectives Every 3 – 9 Months

|   The notion of agility is getting a lot of attention these days and agility is clearly an effective short term tactic for iteratively building application systems. But the question arises as to just what agility means in the context of longer term IT strategy.

Development team ethics, Part II - The Cesspool

|   Are standard project management practices really unethical? Or are they simply the lesser of the available evils? I won't stoop to an Anthony Weiner tie-in. I won't stoop to an Anthony Weiner tie-in. I won't I won't I won't I won't ...

Reflections on Four Recommendations for Agile Developers

|   At a conference in February at Snowbird, Utah a group of Agile practitioners and thought leaders defined four statements that summarized what they felt needed to happen to advance the state and practice of agile development to the next level.

Hybrid Agile – Moving Agile Development to the Next Level

|   As the Agile movement enters its second decade it needs to move beyond its early focus on small development teams and prove that it can scale up to handle much larger projects and scale out to address the entire value chain from requirements gathering and programming to testing and production...

Elephants in the Room – What Agile Practitioners Don’t Talk About

|   Agile development has proven to be successful yet there are "elephants in the room" - things agile practitioners don't talk about but that need to be addressed. Those things range from the role of technical architecture and design to elitism in the agile community and adherence to agile...

Agile Builds Trust with Fast Feedback

|   Agile development has been effective in building trust between business and IT because it delivers results in short iterations and gives business people the chance to use and respond to what IT delivers. The long lead times inherent in the waterfall development approach were and still are the source...

Business Analysts versus Business Designers

|   The Agile movement is changing how many traditional IT roles operate and the business analyst is one of them. Ten years ago a group of seasoned software developers gathered at Snowbird ski resort in Utah to share experiences and ideas. What emerged was the Agile Manifesto, a statement of values and...

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