Learn how Systems Thinking helped Southwest Airlines succeed the five questions to get you started with Systems Thinking and why you need a product champion....

In the decade since the inception of XP a lot has happened in the development world. Chet Hendrickson talks about the most interesting of these changes....

In an enterprise employing a waterfall development methodology the product mindset undergoes a predictable shift of perspective says Dean Leffingwel. He describes the five stages of downward spiral....

This chapter begins by considering why we need agile approaches to software development and then discusses agile in the context of real-time and embedded systems. It then turns to the advantages of agile development processes as compared to more traditional approaches....

We join Robert C. series on an interstellar spacecraft where programmers hone their coding skills. In this twelfth tip in the series the crew learns that Boolean arguments loudly declare that the function does more than one thing. They are confusing and should be eliminated....

Mike Cohn looks at how leaders and change agents can agitate the organization in various ways to influence the transition and continuous improvement efforts....

How do you make smart choices about what to build and when on an Agile team that values interaction and customer collaboration Ellen Gottesdiener describes incorporating Agile requirements modeling into collaborative planning workshops....

Steve Feiner interviews Fred Brooks author of the best-selling em> Mythical Man Month< em> and em> The Design of Design< em> at SIGGRAPH 2009....

The new iPhone 3G S and OS 3.0 update for previous models introduces a lot of new features. Mac specialist Ryan Faas introduces you to the biggest new additions....

In this chapter you will learn how to add rich vector graphics and images to your application. You will also learn how to optimize performance and image quality of those graphics elements....

This chapter provides a tactical roadmap illustrating how to improve specific IT financial management practices based on best practices including Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL ....

Microsoft very recently decided to release a very commonly used debugger extension to the public called psscor2. Mario Hewardt takes a look at some of the powerful commands that are available as part of the psscor2 debugger extension....

In advance of the Honeycomb release what are important aspects that an Android developer should consider in catering an app to tablets Jim Steele fills in the blanks for you....

Enterprise development and networking specialist Stephen B. Morris describes how to come to grips with the multithreaded features now available in C 11....

In this last installment of the series covering best practices for Silverlight in the enterprise Microsoft MVP for Silverlight Jeremy Likness discusses testing. Read this article to learn about various approaches to testing Silverlight applications from white box unit tests to coded UI tests....