Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

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As tech companies grow, they often start overcomplicating and overbuilding software. The goal of such companies should be to create a tech process that allows flexibility and improves efficiency. To ...

In recent years, the Agile methodology has taken the software development world by storm. Agile is a project management approach that prioritizes flexibility, collaboration and adaptability over ...

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The Waterfall framework and the Agile software development process are two competing software development approaches, and the two of them couldn't be more different. Here are the important highlights ...

David Noy is CMO of Ginger Software, a language learning and productivity boosting software for ESL and native English speakers. One of the biggest challenges for software developers lies in the realm ...