Building the right product is critical for success. Our Agile Architect shows you how to write carefully crafted stories to define your product and drive agile development.
The Agile Architect explains how to reduce the cost of large efforts while immediately realizing the benefits. His secret: amortize!
Our Agile Architect explains why a clean, well-organized environment is bad for your Agile project.
This month our Agile Architect tackles how you can answer perhaps the most important question of any development project: Are we going to make our deadline?
This may be the most important decision in getting agile implemented in your shop long-term. Mark J. Balbes breaks down all the criteria to help you make the right choice.
Even good agile teams can get better. Mark J. Balbes walks you through how retrospectives have impacted his team and shows you options for yours.
Our agile architect offers a programming twist on a classic holiday tale.
Halloween may be over but our Agile Architect has a terror tale for you just the same. It always seems like the right time to incur technical debt but never the right time to pay it off. So don't incur it or this could happen to you...
Why you need automated testing, continuous integration, test-driven development and -- yes -- pair programming for agile to be successful.
Do all the research you want, but according to our expert, successful agile transitions require someone who's actually spent time in an agile environment.
Facing CMMI appraisal? Mark walks you through how he completed the Risk Management and Decision Analysis portions of CMMI Maturity Level 3 for his agile shop.
CMMI certification aligns with agile much more than you might think.
Mark J. Balbes, Ph.D., shares what you can expect in his new ADTmag.com column, and talks about three common misconceptions about agile that he'll address further in the coming months.
If you're wondering what a software architect does in an agile development environment, you're not alone. Mark J. Balbes shares what he does and how it all comes together in better code.