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- 10 skills developers will need in the next five years
- Guest post: If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent. TechRepublic's Justin James lists the skills you’ll want to work on now to maximize your future job prospects. For more...
- Tags: Job, Developer, Web, Agile, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it wasPerception is Reality - Agile can Help the Enterprise!In my experience, the old adage, ?perception is reality? is the main driver of a lack of ?IT / Business alignment?. And most ?business? have a perception that IT does not deliver on time or...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Agile
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Dissecting an Agile project from Hell
- Dissecting an Agile project from HellSOWs and ScopeJust read it - very nice. I have often found a desire by some consultants to keep the scope very broadly defined in the SOW. The project is Agile so scope is variable and this is perfect, right? ...
- Tags: Team management, Agile
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Agile: Anatomy of a failed project
- Agile development could not overcome fundamental misunderstandings that ultimately led to catastrophic project failure. Here's why. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project Failure, Anatomy, Michael Krigsman, Project, Customer, Failure, Agile, Mitch Lacey, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- MSDN Webcast: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management With Agile and Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Level 200)
- Development teams that desire to work more effectively with business stakeholders reduce development errors, and lower application development costs are quickly adopting the principles of Application Lifecycle Management ALM. Though there are innumerable ways to deploy an ALM strategy, Agile development practices help achieve the most benefits for the majority...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Webcast, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile
- Webcasts 2008-10-14
- Why Agile development matters [podcast]
- Lengthy IT projects are more prone to fail than shorter ones. Agile development can help reduce these failures. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Developer, Information Technology, Business User, Agile, Lengthy IT Project, Agile Development, OutSystems, End-user Engagement, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Agile is cool!
- Agile is cool!Why most IT projects fail...and how agile can helpthis excellent blog post gives the reasons WHY agile principles can help: http://kw-agiledevelopment.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-most-it-projects-fail-and-how-agile.html
- Tags: Blogging, Agile
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Agile is cool!
- Holy cow, look at the principles underlying agile software development. Be still, my beating heart, because this stuff is great: Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software Working software is delivered frequently weeks rather than months Working...
- Tags: Software, Agile, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Agile evils, the software crisis, and other interesting stories
- Agile evils, the software crisis, and other interesting storiesThanks.Great video.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software crisis, Agile, software
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wall
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wallSaaS is for Agile OrganizationsI think SaaS winds up being the moral equivalent of Agile Programming. There are certainly a lot of similarities that your post has made me think about:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/saas-limits-over-engineering-too-by-forcing-agile-development/Cheers,BW
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Construction, SAP SRM, Agile, software-as-a-service, wall, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business
- Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications businessIBM and Agile? hahahaI read a white paper on the IBM site about Agile where they recommend against using the virtual file system. In the same breath they talk about the difficulties of using developer branches, limiting the use of Multi-site technology,...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, IBM Corp., Telelogic acquisition, Telelogic, applications business, Agile, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- Oracle buying Agile â€" Is it Time to Rethink PLM?
- Here’s the skinny on Oracle’s acquisition of Agile: PLM is a three-letter acronym that has never lived up to its reputation as hot number either across the enterprise or in the eyes of the investment community. That hasn’t stopped companies like Siemens from recently paying a pretty euro to buy...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization features
- Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization featuresDOAntAgileAgile programming supports the move Microsoft just made. For old timers who haven't been exposed to this notion, software development no longer involves prototypes which may or may not be utilized in an actual product but rather involves functional code that may not be fully featured....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Utility computing, Storage management, Agile Programming, Running Process, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, Viridian, Agile, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Develop more secure software without sacrificing rapidity: Integrate the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) with Agile methods
- To date, there is very little guidance for development teams wanting to augment Agile methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, with security discipline. After meeting with Agile proponents, the authors of The Security Development Lifecycle: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software conclude that most of the...
- Tags: Software, Method, Microsoft Press, Agile, Security
- Book chapters 2006-09-13
Additional Resources
- Habanero 2.3.0 (Windows)
- Habanero is an enterprise application framework for .Net that produces an agile application from the data layer through to the front-end. Free open source under the LGPL license, it includes ORM, code generation and runtime UI generation to create one application for the desktop & Web. Support is included for...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Application, Chillisoft Solutions, Habanero, Enterprise Software, Databases, Open Source, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Why Google's software approach won't work for smartphones or the enterprise
- Why Google's software approach won't work for smartphones or the enterpriseBeta Worked For Apple[i]Unfortunately, beta isn?t ?good enough? for smartphones.[/i]It worked well for Apple. Only with 3.0 is the iPhone coming out of beta.Fragmentation and controlFrom what I can tell from reviews and comments by people who have used either...
- Tags: Smart phones, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Google Inc., software, smart phone, software approach, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?
- Michael Hickins at BNet accuses Oracle of 'lying' about its competitive position vis-a-vis SAP. Such statements are always fraught with difficulty for several reasons: The year ends are five months apart The economy has been changing over time Currency rates are...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Financial Management, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- IT Manager Webcast: Natural/Adabas Migration to .NET - A Complete Automated Solution (Level 100)
- The presenters of this webcast shows how ATERAS automated technology will provide the optimum solution for the migration and modernization of Adabas Natural mainframe technologies to the robust, agile and powerful Microsoft .NET Framework application environment. ATERAS and Microsoft provide the optimum cost effective solution for global enterprises to migrate...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework, Webcast, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, .Net, Servers, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts 2009-06-23
- New version of Oracle PLM tool helps IT streamline product development
- In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Supplier, Agile Software, Tool, Product Development, Product Marketing, Channel Management, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- A complete view of the enterprise
- Finally, in times of economic uncertainty, ompanies are insisting that CFOs lead the effort to make their operational and financial planning more agile, detailed, reliable and efficient. This research was commissioned to understand how CFOs are responding to these pressures. How integrated are operational and financial planning systems and processes...
- Tags: Financial, CFO, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance
- White papers 2009-06-19
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