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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Agile software development represents a transformative paradigm in the creation and management of software. By focusing on iterative progress, team collaboration and flexibility, agile practices ...

(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), ...

What tools are needed to create business agility? An agile business can adapt and roll with the punches. I don't mean a ...

Pressure grows for software better aligned with business. Agile techniques have been stagnant for a decade. AI may speed up Agile team output. Agile has always had the best intentions: work side by ...

“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 ...

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In agile development, final specifications are not agreed upon up-front; in some cases, the very nature of the final product itself is not specified at the outset of the project. Instead, agile ...

Recent modernization throughout the Army has spawned several fast-moving initiatives designed to accelerate the timeline for developing and fielding tactical network and associated software-provided ...