As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

The original Agile Manifesto conveys its philosophical underpinnings: In an interview with ComputerWorld magazine, Kent Beck, inventor of Extreme Programming and a strong proponent of agile ...

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Agile methods, and XP in particular, can be a tough sell, although they don't have to be. Agile disciplines such as XP champion a Whole Team approach in which line-of-business reps participate as team ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

Information Systems Research, Vol. 20, No. 3, Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development (September 2009), pp. 355-376 (22 pages) Despite the popularity of agile methods in software ...

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...

What is the best Agile methodology? Answering this question is a little like explaining what tool is right for the job without first knowing what the job is. All Agile methodologies share much of the ...

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This was doubtlessly what motivated programming visionary Kent Beck when he co-wrote with Cynthia Andres Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Beck's book championed a different paradigm-an ...