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How to Succeed in Agile Development

What makes some IT projects succeed while others fail? Alistair Cockburn says it all boils down to three behaviors: “Those that were co-locating face to face, (with) short delivery cycles,

Forrester: SaaS Providers Should Go Vertical

A new Forrester Research report finds that while most software as a service (SaaS) companies already have high valuations, those with specialized offerings for various vertical markets soar even higher.

SOA and Agile — A Natural Fit?

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile software development both help companies become more flexible and better align business and IT. As a result, many have noted that SOA and Agile

HPCC Adds Amazon Cloud Support

HPCC, the LexisNexis alternative to Hadoop for big data processing, has tuned its Thor Data Refinery Cluster to run on Amazon Web Services. That means that developers who would like

Mobile Development Salaries to Rise 8.2% Next Year

Staffing firm Robert Half Technology has released its list of “Seven Promising Jobs” for 2012, and mobile application developer tops the lists. The firm predicts that mobile developers will earn

Top Trends in Application Development

Sometimes it seems that the development industry changes at a glacial pace, but programming is currently in the midst of some big transitions. Peter Wayner says that these could be

Usenix LISA Conference Will Focus on Devops

Next week’s Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference will highlight devops as one of the most important trends in enterprise IT. “LISA is always on the cutting edge of