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What is agile methodology? Modern software development explained

InfoWorld

It’s hard to believe that the agile software development methodology officially turned 20 years old last year. What once was an outlying practice for startups collaborating in colocated spaces with stickies and whiteboards is now a sophisticated, scalable, and widely used set of agile software development processes and tools.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO

“There are clearly tremendous tools in this space like GitHub Co-Pilot that developers can use to enhance and augment their productivity,” he says. Angelic Gibson, CIO at accounts payable automation software and payment solutions provider AvidXchange, agrees that removing friction in the developer workflow can enhance agile innovation.

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

To do so, CIOs must continuously improve their product management, program management, and delivery capabilities to wow customers and deliver competitive advantages, all while steering clear of surefire DX mistakes such as prioritizing too many initiatives and underinvesting in developing digital trailblazers.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture.

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Comprehensive Overview of Case Tools: Streamlining Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

There has never been a greater need for effective, dependable, and agile tools in the constantly changing world of software development. Software developers and organizations looking to streamline their software development processes now depend on Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools more than ever.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. Instead of tools serving to enhance productivity, today’s developers are caught in a tangled web of tools and services just to support their day-to-day.

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