Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Today, software is ubiquitous and has been for more than half a century. From the early EDVAC system to the current Apple Watch, every computing device has needed software. However, software ...

An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the ...

Nearly three decades ago, before the rise of Great Plains Software as a powerhouse, before the billion-dollar deal that brought Microsoft to Fargo, a 26-year-old Doug Burgum got a glimpse of the ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...