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Diversity Is Essential for "Done" According to These Highschool Students

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Connie Skomra is an Application Development & Programming Instructor for The Delaware Area Career Center. She created a program called ADaPT, "a two-year high school career-prep program which offers immersive, personalized, and interactive learning opportunities to aspiring software developers".

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Agile Project Management: What is it and Why is it so Important?

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And many project managers still think it is something that only applies to software development. Iterative and incremental software development methods go back as early as 1957 – and maybe earlier. Evolutionary project management and adaptive software development started in earnest in the early 1970s.

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What is Agile Project Management?

The IIL Blog

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Below we look at two persistent myths.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. Banks have essentially been software developing organizations for a long time.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Applications that live in the front-end space access back-end resources by calling APIs, which in turn are serviced by components in the boundary layer. This is a slightly broader definition of “front-end” that we normally hear from, say, web app developers. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Slack, Flow, and Continuous Improvement

Leading Agile

Many software developers will tell you it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get back into the zone, depending on the task. After all, it isn’t realistic to think you can perform software development effectively by spending 5% of your time on it. Five percent of a 480-minute workday amounts to 24 minutes.

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A Minimal Development Environment: Part One

Leading Agile

Over the years, software development tools have grown in complexity and in system resource consumption. Oracle’s JDeveloper and IBM’s Rational Application Developer (RAD) have similar issues, and a fair amount of space on user forums and blogs is devoted to memory-related tuning tips to make those tools run well.