When extreme programming (XP) catapulted onto the software development scene, it appeared to answer many project failure modes—such as documentation overkill, lack of clear customer requirements, ...

As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

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Sabre supplemented extreme programming practices with its own own methods to create a complete set of 19 best practices.

Pair programming is one of the most contentious practices within Extreme Programming - both supporters and detractors can become quite emotional. So what is pair programming, and why do people become ...

CAMPBELL, CA (June 1, 2004)-- IPextreme, a new semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company, today announces it will deliver new proprietary IP titles designed based on a radically new methodology ...

Simple Talk is Red Gate’s journal for SQL Server and .NET developers. (Red Gate make SQL Server and .NET tools, such as SQL Data Compare and various .NET profilers). So anyway, I just published a kind ...

Over its lifetime, software often falls into a vicious circle: Enhancements make the code more difficult to understand, increasing the likelihood of errors—including errors in the changes meant to ...