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Eager to outpace and outsmart competitors, many organizations are migrating from traditional, sequential “Waterfall” methodologies to the iterative framework of Agile. In fact, according to the ...

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 ...

What developers see as iterative and flexible, users see as disorganized and never-ending. Here’s how some experienced developers have changed that perception. Most software developers I know really ...

A discipline for developing systems based on producing deliverables often. Each iteration, consisting of requirements, analysis & design, implementation and testing, results in the release of an ...

Health care organization leaders are working hard to create, update and continuously improve on their processes to align with the Triple Aim initiative (see Figure 1. Triple Aim Model). Their top ...

Over half of CIOs have discredited agile development, according to a survey commissioned by London-based technology services firm, 6Point6. Three-quarters of the 300 UK and US-based CIOs surveyed said ...

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 ...