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Corporate IT departments embracing lightweight agile-development methods are increasingly turning to some emerging tools built to work within the process.
Developers using agile programming methodologies such as Scrum and extreme programming have historically eschewed such tools.
Lightweight agile methods typically call for small teams to demonstrate new functionality every few weeks, speeding the development process. The methods also eliminate extensive documentation and call for performing early testing to simplify development.
First American Real Estate Solutions LP, which collects and provides access to real estate information, uses a Web-based planning, tracking and management tool from Alpharetta, Ga.-based VersionOne LLC that's built for agile development.
For the past five months, First American has been moving to agile programming methods. The VersionOne tool allows development teams in California, North Carolina, Florida and India to...