Agile News & Articles

One of the 12 principles of the Agile manifesto states that “The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self organizing teams.” But how do you encourage these teams to form and how do you ensure they are sustainable?

We have all felt the pain of the schism. In corporate America, it is everywhere. You go to a meeting, it is there. In the offices when the doors are closed, it is there. Even in the cafeteria and in the elevator it is there. The pain of schism between the business is so palpable and so wide spread it has spawned a manifesto and a movement. Oops -- I misspoke! It has spawned two manifestos and two movements.

Site managers and marketers everywhere are challenged by the tidal wave of mobile devices currently in circulation.

How do you deliver consistent, high quality digital experiences across desktop and mobile channels? This article recaps our recent Mobile Customer Experience webinar and includes a full video recording of the event. Dive on in.

It has been clear for some time that the market for software applications has been changing. "Agile" has become a buzz word in the apps world, with everyone talking about it, a few delivering and many more depending on their tried and tested on-premises apps.

IBM is spending like there’s no tomorrow. Two more companies have just landed in its net, both of which will grow its analytics business on one hand – particularly its Smart Commerce drive – and on the other hand its mobile communications strategy.

With "waterfall" crawling toward an assisted living home for cast-off project management methodologies, Telerik continues to back its bet on the latest SDLC sweetheart -- Agile.

Agile development is known for being cheaper, faster, and quicker to respond to changing market demands, as compared to the slower but steady, sequential process of the waterfall method. And while Agile may be more suitable for projects that are amenable to its speed and quick reaction time, traditional waterfall industries are starting to see the value of using this methodology.

When Hyland (news, site) released v10 of OnBase last December, it focused on case management. With this week’s release of v 11.0, it has changed the focus to mobile enterprise content management, and agility -- agility, that is, as we understand it to be responsiveness to changing business environments.

Mendix, an application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, announced the launch of a new social collaboration project management space, sprintr.

There were a number of good things released recently in the SMB space including news from Zoho that it has made its Meetings tool Mac-friendly, while WorkSimple has released a free version of its social goals management app. Blue Tie through Breeze Social helps SMBs start effective social marketing campaigns, while HP offers enterprise print management to SMBs. Research also shows that SMBs are turning their back on the desktop.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool provider Telerik (news, site) has announced the latest release of its agile project management platform, TeamPulse. Agile teams that rely on the tool are sure to be pleased with the number of new features Telerik has packed into the newest version.

If LogiXML (news, site) recently identified the lack of agility of many business intelligence solutions as one of the reasons for many users’ dissatisfaction with BI vendors, its release of Logi Mobile, a major enhancement to its BI platform Logi Info, will help somewhat with the agile BI development for mobile devices.

A final word from this year’s CeBit conference, which closed in Germany at the end of last week, comes from Software AG (news, site), which announced it has integrated two of its flagship products to produce one mega-business process management product called Enterprise BPM.

We're at the tail end of our Information Management Agility focus, but our contributing experts still came full force with advice on everything from the fundamentals to the conflicts of collaboration. 

Another week in Information Management has flown by. With the help of a handful of ever-so-gracious experts, we present advice on everything from responding to business uncertainties to creating content strategy without user testing: