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Along with storage and testing capabilities, the cloud can, and will, help bridge the gap between development and IT operations. DevOps is gaining in popularity, and the acceptance of the cloud is one of of the reasons for its success.

While it’s good that the idea of considering production issues early now has a name (Dev Ops), what matters in the end is delivering software more reliably, reducing waste in the product delivery process, and making stakeholders happy. Since product’s don’t deliver value until they are deployed and working it’s good to take a step back and consider operations and deployment processes and team as first class stakeholders earlier.

Some security experts would have you believe that it is "impossible" to implement secure development practices using agile development methodologies.

Although risk identification, analysis, and mitigation are critically important parts of any software project effort, agile projects require non-traditional techniques that are much quicker and easier to use than classical risk techniques.

Miscommunications, misunderstandings, and interpersonal conflicts often thrive in the typical distributed team.

If your Scrum practices-or any agile processes-aren't working as effectively as they might, this class may be just what you need!

Many organizations look at technical debt as an inevitable byproduct of developing and delivering software. They struggle with managing their existing debt as well as searching for ways to make it go away.