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The actor, 56, oozed confidence as he hit the red carpet ahead of him receiving the much coveted Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film.

Jennifer Lopez looked relaxed as she stepped out on a shopping with with her child Emme Saturday. The hitmaker 55, kept her look and presence low key.

"Stakeholders must be included" throughout an agile project "to ensure the evolving deliverables meet their expectations," according to an article this week in Communications of the ACM. But long-time Slashdot reader theodp complains it's a "gushing how-to-make-Agile-even-better opinion piece." Like other pieces by Agile advocates, it's long on accolades for Agile, but short on hard evidence justifying why exactly Agile project management "has emerged as a critical component for firms looking to improve project delivery speed and flexibility" and the use of Agile approaches is being expanded across other departments beyond software development. Indeed, among the three examples of success offered in the piece to "highlight the effectiveness of agile methods in navigating complex stakeholder dynamics and achieving project success" is Atlassian's use of agile practices to market and develop its products, many of which are coincidentally designed to support Agile practices and teams (including Jira). How meta. Citing "recent studies," the piece concludes its call for stakeholder engagement by noting that "59% of organizations measure Agile success by customer or user satisfaction." But that is one of those metrics that can create perverse incentives. Empirical studies of user satisfaction and engagement have been published since the 1970's, and sadly one of the cruel lessons learned from them is that the easiest path to having satisfied users is to avoid working on difficult problems. Keep that in mind when you ponder why difficult user stories seem to languish forever in the Kanban and Scrum Board "Ice Box" column, while the "Complete" column is filled with low-hanging fruit. Sometimes success does come easy! So, are you in the Agile-is-Heaven or Agile-is-Hell camp?

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The ring is a magnificent emerald-cut diamond, which signifies 'clarity, strength and a clear and transparent relationship'.

During Sunday's show the 66-year-old struggled to contain his emotion as he honoured his fellow athletes and said the devastating accident that had been felt 'all around the world'.

A gay couple who preyed on a schoolboy in a two-month period in Berkshire have been jailed after camping out in the woods in order to avoid the nationwide manhunt for them.

Ivanka Trump, 43, and her husband Jared Kushner, 44, enjoyed a romantic date night together on Saturday evening at an Italian restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida.

Our thoughts remain with those who have lost a loved one

Liam Payne will receive a special tribute during the 2025 Grammy Awards, three months after he suffered a fatal fall from the third floor of his hotel in Buenos Aires.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has reportedly gained access to the Treasury Department's payment system, which controls trillions of dollars of government funds.

A Los Angeles man has made a jaw-dropping discovery when he returned to his house after the devastating Eaton Fire that ravaged his community.

She was in Thing Called Love. Her other hit films include Pump Up The Volume in 1990 with Christian Slater, The American President in 1995 and Broken Arrow in 1996.

Local reports suggest the victim was in the street in Utrecht city, around 30 miles from the capital city, Amsterdam, when she was fatally stabbed at around 15:00 local time on Saturday.

Rashford declared he was ready for a 'new challenge' in a bombshell interview late last year, but the manner of his switch away has left United supporters crestfallen.

Tom's Hardware reports: Facebook's heavy-handed censorship of Linux groups and topics was "in error," the social media juggernaut has admitted. Responding to reports earlier this week, sparked by the curious censorship of the eminently wholesome DistroWatch, Facebook contacted PCMag to say that it had made a mistake and that the underlying issue had been rectified. "This enforcement was in error and has since been addressed. Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services," said a Meta rep to PCMag. That is the full extent of the statement reproduced by the source... Copenhagen-hosted DistroWatch says it has appealed against the Community Standards-triggered ban shortly after it noticed it was in effect (January 19). PCMag received the Facebook admission of error on January 28. The latest statement from DistroWatch, which now prefers posting on Mastodon, indicates that Facebook has lifted the DistroWatch links ban. More details from PCMag: Meta didn't say what caused the crackdown in the first place. But the company has been revamping some of its content moderation and plans to replace its fact-checking methodology with a user-driven Community Notes, similar to X. "We're also going to change how we enforce our policies to reduce the kind of mistakes that account for the vast majority of the censorship on our platforms," the company said earlier this month, in another irony. "Up until now, we have been using automated systems to scan for all policy violations, but this has resulted in too many mistakes and too much content being censored that shouldn't have been," Meta added in the same post.

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The explosive new Boyzone documenary was finally released on Sunday, featuring never-before-seen footage from the band's heyday.

Roads littered with bursting bin bags. It might sound like a scene from a Hollywood disaster flick but this could soon be the reality for thousands of furious Bristolians.

Two people have died on the same road since November - but residents say problems have persisted for many years before this

The actress died today at her family home in Uijeongbu, South Korea just three months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, according to a national newspaper.

Tony Martin, 80, was jailed in 2000 for the murder of 16-year-old Fred Barras and injury of 29-year-old Brendon Fearon after the pair entered his Norfolk home.