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 ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Not all software works. Clearly we have all used ...

SDLC guides teams to plan, build, test, and deliver software. Discover phases, KPIs, tools, and checklist with our quick start guide. Picture this: You and your team have spent a tremendous amount of ...

One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...