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 ...

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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 ...

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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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 ...

Many people ask how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ensures Section 508 compliance in Agile projects – especially when Section 508 testing is still largely manual. The short answer ...

Today's marketplace is increasingly competitive, with organizations facing mounting pressure to reduce time-to-market while ...

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure Some IT projects are destined to fail due to haphazard planning, poor execution, or unexpected changes in the business or technical environment.