agile development

In a bid to improve its IT operations, the Department of Homeland Security has adopted agile development and is implementing cloud-based platforms.

When reliability is more important than flexibility it's best to opt for traditional methods.

The agile software development community claims that changing the way you work doesn't make things faster. Then why do it at all? Compare agile to traditional development methodologies and you'll see that agile can, in fact, be faster.

The days of the big, lumbering, multiyear government IT projects are likely coming to an end as more and more federal IT managers turn to Agile development methodologies to speed up software projects so they can quickly demonstrate the value of new systems.

As the threat of federal budget cuts hover, IT managers are turning to agile development to speed up projects and quickly show their value.

This agile development framework could be your key to completing more projects on time, on budget and on scope.

Agile development methodologies in the enterprise can be like building on quicksand or trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, according to the vice president of technology at popular accommodation website Hotels.com.

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Hotels.com has said it has significantly sped up its software development lifecycle by adopting Agile principles, reducing the lifecycle from 26 weeks to just a fortnight.

You hear a lot about organizations that must make split-second decisions or risk losing to competitors. Split-seconds? That's usually an exaggeration, unless you're talking about Formula One racing.

BI system development hits the ground running with efficiency and flexibility using the agile methodology.

Today's software developers don't have to worry about many things that their predecessors used to, like coding to minimize RAM consumption. However, the reverse is also true: there are many new skills and areas of expertise that today's software developers, hardware developers, system and network administrators, and other IT professionals need that simply didn't exist in the past.