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Why Agile Agile development is popular, but that's no reason to use it. The real question: will agile development make your team more successful? Success is usually defined as delivering on time, under budget, and as specified. That's a flawed definition. Many late projects are huge successes for their organizations, and many on-time projects don't deliver any value. Instead, think in terms of organizational, technical, and personal success. Agile development is no silver bullet, but it is useful. Organizationally, agile delivers value and reduces costs; technically, it highlights excellence and minimal bugs; personally, many find it their preferred way to work. How to be Agile There is no "agile method." "Agile" is a marketing term created to describe a style of working. This style focuses on collaborative work, concrete results, delivering value, and minimizing waste. "Being agile" means working in the agile style. To do so, start with an exi...

Background Over the past few years there has been a spurt in the social networking sites. I have received many request from various friends to join their preferred social networking forum. So far I have joined some of them like Orkut , Twitter , Facebook , Linkedin . Prior to these social networking sites people had to rely on various community sites and user groups. I have been part of ASP.NET community and also some of the yahoo groups and user group like BDotNet . Each of these have their pros and cons. I am just trying to summarize my thoughts about the impact of social networking as it stands today on the developer community. Impact of social networking on developer community As developers we need to constantly keep ourselves updated with various tools and technologies. The rate at which technology stack is getting upgraded is very fast compared to previous 2 decades. I would say people who were developing software in the 80’s and 90’s had very little choice. There were very few p...