Agile method: overview of practices

Be agile. Or be Agile, with a capital A. What does this mean? Isn’t it just another “buzzword”, very much loved by the software world, a way of drawing the line in the “specialized” press, like they say? What does it really mean when all the big software houses declare themselves “Agile” and recruit many [...]

Collaboration is the key to agile software development

One of the most radical and controversial practices in Extreme Programming (XP) is so-called “pair programming”. This involves two developers writing code simultaneously with one keyboard, one screen, one mouse and four hands. “The majority of people are unaware of this new practice, especially in France. Nevertheless, it produces excellent results,” explains Arnaud Bailly. Arnaud [...]