Process & Practices Content on InfoQ

Major Software Development Trends for 2013 With 2012 coming to an end and everybody talking about what lies ahead in 2013, InfoQ has conducted a quick poll amongst its editors about the trends that have a good potential to get significant traction or even dominated the software development community during the next year. These trends include everything from specific programming languages, platforms, development methodologies, and more.

Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets In the recent past there has been a sudden upsurge in the number of competing ALM offerings from vendors that previously offered a subset of the toolset.With this survey, we would like to measure the ability to execute and the completeness of vision of each of these competing toolsets.

Biggest Impediments for Effective Agile Adoption? This InfoQ Research item aims to rank the impediments to agile adoption in organisations. It examines organisational, structural, cultural, technical and management factors that could inhibit agile adoption.

What are the Most Important and Adoption-Ready Agile Practices? InfoQ have launched a new community driven research tool, and one of the areas we want to examine is the relative importance, and level of use in teams of a variety of agile practices, covering both social and technical practices that teams may be using. Please vote and review the responses from other voters using this new service.