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 ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Andrew Miller Poor ...

A key characteristic of classical project management is its sequential and linear approach to project planning and execution. It involves detailed upfront planning, such as creation of a comprehensive ...

The genesis of a memorable user experience and the spark of its creation is quite hardly a linear process. In our own design agency, we have uncovered that flexibility and agility truly bring forth a ...

As tech companies grow, they often start overcomplicating and overbuilding software. The goal of such companies should be to create a tech process that allows flexibility and improves efficiency. To ...

Over the last decade, IT outsourcing has evolved quickly. What once was a model focused on increasing efficiency and lowering costs by engaging highly affordable offshore resources has now become an ...

A discipline for developing systems based on producing deliverables often. Each iteration, consisting of requirements, analysis & design, implementation and testing, results in the release of an ...

Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs' treat it as something to solve later 25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact ...

However, we do not often hear about non-profits and mission-based organizations using these approaches. Author Ann Mei Chang's new book, called Lean Impact, remedies this lack of knowledge by bringing ...