Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

The original Agile Manifesto conveys its philosophical underpinnings: In an interview with ComputerWorld magazine, Kent Beck, inventor of Extreme Programming and a strong proponent of agile ...

This was doubtlessly what motivated programming visionary Kent Beck when he co-wrote with Cynthia Andres Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Beck's book championed a different paradigm-an ...

Information Systems Research, Vol. 20, No. 3, Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development (September 2009), pp. 355-376 (22 pages) Despite the popularity of agile methods in software ...

What is the best Agile methodology? Answering this question is a little like explaining what tool is right for the job without first knowing what the job is. All Agile methodologies share much of the ...

Agile methods, and XP in particular, can be a tough sell, although they don't have to be. Agile disciplines such as XP champion a Whole Team approach in which line-of-business reps participate as team ...