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• IT should forget development, focus on requirements and release management

  By Thor Olavsrud | 19 May, 2012 07:04

  In the past decade, application development has undergone a revolution: the Agile Manifesto, cloud computing development platforms and the explosion in the iPhone, iPad and Android device markets have changed everything.

• Using pair programming practices in code inspections

  By Matthew Heusser | 10 May, 2012 04:51

  This leaves us with two options: Radically change the code review process or change goals and expectations from defect removal to something more effective. Ultimately, both options may be part of the answer-that is, considering a pair programming approach and adopting a more flexible testing process.

• Top six BI trends for 2012

  By Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall | 17 April, 2012 13:19

  Following Gartner’s BIIM Summit in Sydney, Conrad Bates and Cameron Wall, managing partners of C3 Business Solutions, share the top six business intelligence trends they believe will drive the industry in 2012.

• Is your Cloud project ready to be agile?

  By David Taber | 22 February, 2012 03:39

  In the decade since the Agile Manifesto, the movement has encouraged a number of best practices like test-driven development, user-centered design, iIterative development, clean code, refactoring, continuous integration, and-arguably-cloud computing.

• Controlling agile development in a project portfolio framework

  By Ian Knox, VP of marketing, Daptiv | 07 December, 2011 09:34

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• PMBOK vs PRINCE2 vs Agile project management

  By CIO Staff | 29 September, 2011 07:00

  There are a range of different methodologies which are often applied to project management, with the three most commonly considered being PMBOK, PRINCE2 and Agile. If you're trying to weigh up what are the pros and cons of PMBOK versus PRINCE2 versus something like Agile, you may find it useful to consider them in context with the project that you're undertaking, as well as comparing one to the other.

• An agile approach to change management

  By Myles Bogner and David Elfanbaum | 23 February, 2011 04:03

  Agile software development is designed to thrive within even the most dynamic business and technical environments. In fact, according to an article on the Web site of Martin Fowler, a well-known Agile industry leader, the name 'Agile' was chosen because its founders viewed 'adaptiveness and response to change' as the most essential concept of the methodology.

• Agile Aconex turns tables on sales

  By David Braue | 14 December, 2010 08:00

  Many organisations consider Agile development as a nice-to-have way of improving their efficiency and driving change. For document management provider Aconex, however, the adoption of Agile was a lifeline after its operations faced almost paralysing pressures from an increasingly complex product, ever more-demanding customers and sales staff, and heady growth that has propelled the Melbourne startup into 35 countries.

• Five months to business intelligence for RGA

  By David Braue | 14 December, 2010 08:00

  A recent five-month effort to complete a business intelligence (BI) project for an internal division marked a major turning point for life reinsurer, RGA Australia, as its developers charged forward with an Agile-driven methodology that replaced traditional bottom-up development processes with an iterative effort to see how much could be done within a five-month timeframe.

• Suncorp "agilises" its business, adopts BYO IT

  By Mahesh Sharma | 20 September, 2010 16:18

  Suncorp is "agilising" its business and extending agile practices to non-technology areas at the regional bank, following the successful use of the project management methodology in a range of IT projects.

• Bankwest feeds agile methods into CBA

  By Mahesh Sharma | 17 September, 2010 13:27

  Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is watching the use of agile practices at recently acquired subsidiary Bankwest, which helped cut two-thirds out of the project deployment time. Bankwest chief information officer, Andy Weir, spoke about the bank's use of agile practices for a technology project to develop a debt management application at the conference in Melbourne.

• Agile BI Development: Meet User Demand, Beat IT Complexity

  By Thomas Wailgum | 27 April, 2010 05:00

  BI remains atop business managers' wish lists and, not coincidentally, on IT's to-do list. The demand for BI and analytic tools is unlikely to abate any time soon.

• Microsoft juices Visual Studio with secure coding tools

  By John Fontana | 03 February, 2010 08:46

  Microsoft Tuesday said it will deepen ties between its Visual Studio development tools and the secure applications development processes first developed inside the company and now available to outsiders.

• Microsoft releases security guidelines for Agile

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 November, 2009 09:03

  Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process.