Lately, the term "continuous" has popped to the top of vendors' and pundits' lists as the software architecture we all should and want to have. The problem is that many assume "continuous" means rapid ...

One of agile development’s core principles is to deliver working software at the end of every sprint. Teams accomplish this by defining robust user story acceptance criteria, committing to the sprint ...

The traditional model for software development is the waterfall approach, where development “flows” downward like a waterfall through six phases: analysis, design, implementation, validation testing, ...

Lightweight approaches to developing software have been around for years, coalescing in early 2001 under the term "agile" with the publication of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development," and ...

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About 15 years ago, if someone had told David Schofield, an advanced surfacing designer at Trek Bicycle, that one day he and his team would owe their product design process to 17 software developers ...

Agile software development has becoming more prevalent in the digital evolution of today’s world. While the transformation of software development has progresses, the management of information ...

Many medical device companies develop software using a traditional waterfall methodology in which each step is taken in sequence: requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation ...

It’s ironic that the idea of Agile—a central concept of competitiveness in the 21 st Century economy—which began in manufacturing in the early 1990s, took hold in software, not manufacturing. While ...