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 ...

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 ...

Back in the day, developing software was simple: You’d come up with a great idea, then lock your engineers away behind closed doors until they’d solved all the problems, ironed out all the bugs and ...

The landscape of modern financial project management is characterized by a fundamental tension. Financial institutions face relentless regulatory demands that necessitate stringent oversight, ...

This happens every day: A “solution” is handed to a team to build. The team determines the scope of the work, develops a project plan and promises a set of features by a specific date. It is assumed ...

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 ...

Snowbird, Utah, is an unlikely place to mount a software revolution. Around 25 miles outside Salt Lake City, Snowbird is certainly no Silicon Valley; it is not known for sunny and temperate climes, ...