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Five Reasons Why Agile Can Fail Unfortunately, some projects fail, even when using an agile development methodology. Instead of just rehashing horror stories, Joe Townsend attempts to get to the bottom of why these failures occur. |
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February Coding News Roundup In this roundup of coding news, we learn that the US arm of mobile device maker HTC got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission, a new study says that software vulnerabilities were up in 2012 after a five-year lull, and a scientist built a programming language based on Arabic scripts. |
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There's No Such Thing as an IT Project Adrian Reed makes the case that there is no such thing as an IT project—there are only business projects that implement, impact, change, or interface with IT. This sounds like a subtle distinction, but it’s deceptively important. |
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Need Another Reason to Consider DevOps? Automation is a critical component of eliminating waste. A large part of the DevOps movement is centered on automating the infrastructure tasks that take away from delivering value. In addition to the obvious cost savings of automation, it can also breed innovation. |
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What the Boeing Dreamliner 787 Team Can Learn from Agile Methods The Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s grounding issue is currently the talk of the town. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy lists the issues surrounding Boeing's airplane problems and how agile methods could have benefited the company's development team. |
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Why Testers Need to Become More Technical As projects become more technical, testers themselves must adapt and become more technical. With technologies getting more complex each day, testers need to know how to identify risks and find problems deep within the technology stack. |
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Storing Data in DNA: It's a Game Changer While it may be difficult to wrap your head around the concept of storing data—massively big data—on microscopic strands of DNA, you should try. Scientists in England have come up with a way to store truly limitless amounts of data on DNA, where it will be safe for tens of thousands of years. |
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Sluggish Economy Pushes US Government toward Agile Development Facing massive budgetary problems, IT departments scattered across numerous US government agencies have turned to agile-based development practices in hopes of saving money and streamlining the development process. Learn how agile is truly adoptable at all project levels. |