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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Many project management software solutions are wedded to a more traditional, waterfall methodology, which means that the plans are set ahead of time and then they follow a rigid schedule. But what happens if management is using waterfall tools and their teams are executing in an agile environment? Since that time, agile has spread.

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Key Components of the DevOps Pipeline?

Agilemania

Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. DevOps was formed by combining the concepts of development and operations.

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Agile project management: A beginner's guide

Moira Alexander

Agile is a project management methodology that uses short development cycles called sprints to focus on continuous improvement in the development of a product or service. These developers gathered together to discuss lightweight development methods based on their combined experience. Adaptive software development (ASD).

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part Five

Leading Agile

Possibly the greatest value in a set of executable tests or checks for a provisioning script is that they provide up-to-date and accurate documentation of how each instance in the environment is intended to be configured. When the spec is executed, it will verify that the recipe attempts to install the specified packages.

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Continuous Unit Checking:Part Two

Leading Agile

Both autotest and guard are configurable to filter files by filename and to control whether the full test suite is executed after a failed test has been corrected. ZenTest and guard are specifically intended to support Ruby application development. These are executed from our project root directory.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. That’s just it. Great question, though.