Embrace Changing Requirements or Work Hard to Reduce Uncertainty?Agile development teams and practitioners can welcome changing requirements all they want—but how hard should they work to reduce the uncertainty that accompanies changing requirements? Experts have mixed opinions on the topic, and each side makes a pretty convincing argument.
What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development?Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis.
New Weather Supercomputers Ready for 2013 Hurricane SeasonOn July 25, 2013, the National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, flipped the switch on two new weather supercomputers that are running an upgraded hurricane research and forecasting model designed to more accurately project storm intensity and structure.
Embrace Your Mistakes—Make Friends with Pairing and FeedbackWe'd rather be recognized for our accomplishments than our mistakes, but chances are you're more worried about the mistakes you've made than are your coworkers who saw your gaffe. Pair programming and feedback are great ways to recognize the good and the not-so-good of everyone on the team.
Why Firefox OS May Change the Way Software Is ReleasedTwo key news items from the mobile world in 2013 were the launch of Blackberry Z10 and the announcement of Firefox OS-powered mobile devices. These devices may be different in form or factor, but they share one unintentional similarity—the locales in which the devices were first launched.
Why Developers Will Decide the Fate of Google ChromecastLast week's celebration of Google Chromecast has done more than simply die down. It's turned into downright speculation that even with Google's allowing developers to begin creating their own apps for it, many developers may pass. We look at what's inside the USB to see what's there—and what's not.
Making Telecommuting Work for Your Product Development TeamCan you make telecommuting work for your organization? Of course you can. The question is this: Will it make your product development proceed faster, with more ease and less cost, and allow you the most flexibility? If not, you may want to reconsider having employees telecommute.
The First Connected Child's Car Seat Has ArrivedTOMY International has introduced the first smartphone-synched child's car seat with an integrated monitoring system designed to alert parents of unsafe and potentially life-threatening situations—unbuckling while the car is in motion, forgetting the child in the car, and other safety issues.
