The agile and lean approaches to software development have much in common, but they also have some fundamental philosophical differences This succinct book explains how to you can apply the practices ...

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In the fifteen years since seventeen software developers met at a Utah resort and hammered out the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Agile methodologies for building software have become the ...

In the 1990s, the software department was often the worst performing department in any big firm. Its output were often late, over budget, and frequently didn’t work at all. In response, alternatives ...

Any developer on a team that practices Scrum, XP, Kanban or Lean-based software development methodologies should be familiar with the Agile Manifesto and the Agile principles it espouses. But not all ...

Processes originally aimed at speedy application development are giving manufacturers the tools to build the next generation of urban-flight and space vehicles. In association withSiemens Digital ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

Want to reduce your release cycle from 203 to 100 days — and make it more secure? Fannie Mae did. Vice-president of development services Michael Garcia credits lean, a quality improvement philosophy ...

Everyone is looking for a win-win methodology for both providers and clients when it comes to software development. After all, software development isn’t going away any time soon. Agile software ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...

In modern-day working environments, Agile is becoming an increasingly popular project management methodology used to organize projects. Although it originated in the software development industry, ...