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 ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

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 ...

In an attempt to prove that I can turn any weekend away into a software development blog, I couldn’t pass up the chance to mention that these last few days I have been lucky enough to take a road trip ...

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 ...

There are mountains of articles on the various software development life cycle methodologies, but nothing beats personal experience. While there may be no single SDLC methodology that fits all ...