Brian Fox is systems development branch chief at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Geospatial Technical Operations Center. Many agencies are intrigued by the idea of an agile workplace, one that ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...

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The Army successfully implemented this framework in February 2022. But a lot has happened since we began that transition in the fall of 2020. We experienced a pandemic. New DOD Instructions 5000.66 ...

Implementing the agile process for software development efforts is just the beginning. To achieve the requisite collaboration between business and IT, to succeed using agile methods across multiple ...

One of the most important things to know about Agile methodologies is that if it is limited to one team of developers churning out code, it won't be Agile. In their new ebook, Agile for Dummies, Scott ...

Agilemania is leading the way into the future of Agile with its AI-powered Courses, a set of known programs that incorporate ...

Maine CIO Jim Smith has managed software development projects for 35 years, mostly in Fortune 500 companies. For much of that time, he wanted a better approach. “We have always struggled with finding ...

One of agile development’s core principles is to deliver working software at the end of every sprint. Teams accomplish this by defining robust user story acceptance criteria, committing to the sprint ...

Agile development focuses on delivering new features or products that could be demonstrated or even go to market at the end of each one-week to one-month development period, called sprints. Agile ...