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• The path to Agile: Successes and slip-ups

  IT and digital execs from News Corp, CommBank, and Australia Post discuss why Agile is still very much a work in progress.

• Balancing outsourcing with Agile development

  The ‘keeping mum effect’, or reluctance to report bad news about a distressed project, is alive and well in our time-compressed, competitive, uncompromising and globalised business environments.
  

• How to achieve Agile business intelligence success

  The Agile development approach to data management and business intelligence projects is seeing greater take up by CIOs as public and private sector firms demand faster, more measurable returns on their information investments.
  

• Agile Meets Collaboration for Better, Faster Software Product Delivery

  Software developers increasingly use specialized Agile tools, such as Rally and Atlassian JIRA for individual tasks, but with many teams working simultaneously on products at every stage in the definition and development lifecycle, it's easy for information to get lost and for teams to lose sight of the bigger picture: what's being built, why it's being built and how to track progress.

• Agile pays off for Coates Hire

  Agile development methodology was key to the successful implementation of a new online equipment management tool for Coates Hire.

• U.S. CIO Urges Feds to Fail Fast, Not Fail Big

  Taking a page from the private sector, federal CIO Steve VanRoekel calls for a more agile, iterative approach to government IT projects.

• 23 signs your cloud project may be in trouble

  On many an old map, unknown territories were marked, 'Here be dragons!' Sure, it's actionable, but it's not very informative. Centuries later, do we have the same problem with software project management? Here's how to slay the dragons that threaten to set your cloud projects aflame.

• How to Use Agile Development to Avoid Project Failures

  The rocky rollout of Healthcare.gov is a very public example of a larger issue of software product failures. Can an agile development framework allow software companies to avoid such project management headaches themselves.

• Are Purchasing Practices Killing Your Software Projects?

  Alan Shepard famously said, 'It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.' Don't let the purchasing department determine the success of your software project.

• Why You May Need an 'Agile Coach' (Whatever One Is)

  Ask an 'agile coach' what he or she does and the answer could range from write code to run meetings. It's not what you'd necessarily expect an agile coach to be doing, but that doesn't mean the role is unnecessary.

• Has Agile Software Development Gone Mainstream?

  Today's software development industry views object-oriented programming as 'just another tool.' Is agile development headed the same way?

• Why 'Agile Project Management Controls' Isn't an Oxymoron

  George Carlin made phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' famous. But the need to control agile projects is no joke. Ask the right questions along the way, though, and you'll bring order to a process than can easily turn chaotic.

• Library Competes Thanks to Agile Development Outsourcing

  One of the nation's largest circulating libraries, the King County Library System, turns to agile development outsourcing to take on commercial rivals such as Apple and Amazon.

• How to Adjust to the Changing Face of Software Testing

  Beyond testing scripts and automating everything, a new approach to software testing is gaining traction in larger organizations. Proponents including Barclays, the world's fourth largest bank. Should your team listen?

• What's wrong with agile development: Culture, people top the list

  Agile development projects are succeeding, but when they fail, it's often due to staffing and teamwork issues