This article describes the refactoring techniques used to improve existing Java code.

This article defines the different process available for software development projects and when and how to use them.

This article presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team composed of the different participants of agile projects.

This article provides a conceptual view of Agile project management and describe how it can be integrated in the Unified Process approach.

This article explains the approach to handle requirement in agile projects.

Entire books have been written about many of the XP developer practices; no book has more than 11 pages about customer practices.....

Tutorial on Lean Design

This article is about applying Agile methods in an environ-ment that may be more familiar with high ceremony project manage-ment methods – methods that might be considered heavy weight in terms of today’s agile vocabulary.

Data modeling techniques are used in several ways -- domain data modeling (analysis), logical data modeling (detailed analysis), architectural data modeling, and physical data modeling (design). It is perfectly fine to use data models for several purposes, or different types of models for a similar purpose. For example, you can use data models, CRC models, UML class diagrams, and ORM diagrams for domain modeling; as Agile Modeling (AM) suggests, know Multiple Models so that you can and Apply the Right Artifact(s) for the situation. In this article I discuss a agile/evolutionary approach to data modeling.

This report compares the Software Engineering Institute's "Views and Beyond" approach for documenting software architectures with the documentation philosophy embodied in agile software-development methods. This report proposes an approach for capturing architecture information in a way that is consistent with agile methods.