agile development

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.

How much upfront design and usability is too much to be considered Agile?

The two's public argument led to friendship and mutual support of agile development, which they say has been misunderstood.

Continuous integration server technology upgrade adds deployment capabilities.

Reporting capabilities also added as CollabNet emphasizes the rapid deployment the cloud version allows.

"You'd have a hard time these days trying to find people who don't want to be agile," says Scott Ambler, chief methodologist for agile and Lean at IBM Rational. But confusion remains about what it means to be agile.

The software automates the build, test, and deployment process to help companies more quickly move software into production

The ALM vendor's online venture is geared to decision makers and focuses on agile software development.

The company buys AgileZen and will migrate its functionality to its Rally platform.

Cloud, agile development, the Web, and others make Microsoft's to-do list.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard Co. has enhanced its HP Agile Accelerator to help organizations, in the face of technology modernization, to more easily and cost effectively build and deploy software in an iterative manner.