The methods technology companies use to develop new software for their customers have changed in recent years, making applying the rules for capitalization of software development cost more ...

While all of the recent Microsoft buzz centers on Windows 7, the company made a small but important announcement this week. At TechEd Europe in Germany, Microsoft announced that it has adapted its SDL ...

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Can an organization really cut development time more than 70 percent by embracing the agile philosophy and open architecture? The intelligence-gathering arm of the U.S. Air Force says it’s done just ...

The process battle in the software development world is over. Agile development has won the day as a result of defeating waterfall development. Agile development allows organizations to respond much ...

Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process. The Agile guidelines apply principles from ...

Author Steve McConnell says while intended to focus on individuals and interactions, agile seems to be mostly about processes and tools now Agile software development, which aims to offer a much ...

Software development teams and operations/system administrators have historically pushed each other in opposing yet complementary directions. While development teams focus on delivering new features ...

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 ...