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 ...

A key characteristic of classical project management is its sequential and linear approach to project planning and execution. It involves detailed upfront planning, such as creation of a comprehensive ...

Everyone talks about agile development, but how does it really work? Learn how teams use scrum, kanban, and other agile methodologies to deliver better software. It’s hard to believe that the agile ...

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 ...

(Fort Belvoir, Virginia) More than 200 people from the General Fund Enterprise Business System’s (GFEBS) Development and Modernization (DevMod) product, along with System Support Operations (SSO), ...

Many medical device companies develop software using a traditional waterfall methodology in which each step is taken in sequence: requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation ...

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The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

“Gone are the days of three-year $50 million software programs. Now, I want returns on investment within three to five months. We need to change the way we develop software so that we can get things ...