Agile methods software development (also called Agile Modelling, denoted AG for short) reduce software lifecycle time (thus speeding up development) by firstly creating a prototype version, then ...

As organizations face growing demands for speed, quality and adaptability, traditional performance improvement methods and Agile development practices alone often fall short. While Agile methodologies ...

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As technical jargon goes, “agile development” has a great ring to it. Even to business managers, it sounds dynamic and vibrant — just the thing to speed up production and rescue a flagging software ...

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Federal agencies are embracing agile development, but new ways of thinking are needed to make it work at government scale. Contracts Innovation Software Development Over the last few years, government ...

To speed the development of a critical Web-based financial system, Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. made Agile methods a part of its project plan. Launched at year’s end, the application suite, ...

HealthCare.gov is not an exception. Information-technology projects at all levels of government often fail to deliver as promised or exceed budgets and timelines. As a result, the public is skeptical ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

Shallow backlogs, missed commitments, low morale, and defects may indicate your agile process needs more than a few minor tweaks. Do you call your agile development process “fragile,” “hybrid ...