The broad pervasiveness of the term agile is astonishing, because it is not well defined in the area of software engineering. The fuzziness of the term agile comes with the danger of ill‐founded decisions and ideological discussions. Both slow down the gain in knowledge in the domain of ...
Global health practitioners may feel frustration that current models of global health research, delivery, and implementation are overly focused on specific interventions, slow to provide health services in the field, and relatively ill-equipped to adapt to local contexts. Adapting design principles from...
Agile software development istheway we build software now. The general consensus on management of software development projects is that predictive planning approaches (e.g.,Waterfall) are ill suited for the job. However, almost two decades after the release of theAgile Manifestoand the rise ofScru...
Sometimes it’s not easy to spot these sources of randomness, especially if they don’t happen on developer machines. But there’s one thing you can do: put these tests in quarantine – a special build for ill-mannered tests marked by an infamous attribute, a kind of jail where they can...
This not only ensures that testing is consistent and efficient but also makes security requirements explicit, so that developers don’t waste time puzzling over how to satisfy ill-defined policies laid down by separate groups. Common security tests, such as penet...
needed to build successful software in the first place. Without past experience to draw on, teams were ill equipped to estimate project costs and time to completion, leading to software that was often delivered over budget, over schedule, and lacking key functionality — if it was delivered at...
waterfall methods of software development—a more linear development process with greater upfront planning. The counter argument, is that great software requires careful and detailed upfront planning to avoid dead ends, blockages, capability limitations, and expensive rewrites of ill-planned spaghetti ...
As with internal development, it's not as simple as flipping a switch to go Agile. Pay closeattention to the languagein an Agile development contract. Conventional software development contracts are often an ill fit for Agile projects, as it can be difficult to estimate the amount of work to...
believe development is a linear process. You ignore unpleasant feedback. Rather than acting on it, you always stick to the plan, just like a politician in an ill-advised military quagmire. If any of these descriptions are true for your organization—or for yourself—then you’re not ready....
Existing workers will struggle to work in this new way. And for organizational leaders, a traditional transformation and management approach is ill-suited. A quick primer on agile organizational design An agile organizational design comprises delivery and professional organizing structures working in a ma...