The word "Agile" has caught on as a buzzword in the world of software project management. The great thing about buzzwords is that they draw attention to new concepts that hold promise in terms of ...

Raytheon is delivering new software functions that are two to ten times faster as part of its contract to modernize the US Air Force’s Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System using agile ...

As IT aligns itself with business goals, Agile software development is increasingly enabling developers to better create applications that meet user needs quickly. And, now, the advent of increased ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For decades, the US Air Force and its lead aircraft supplier, Lockheed Martin, have struggled to efficiently write the code that runs their aircraft. The result is numerous cost overruns, delays and ...

Workday was founded on the belief that happy and engaged employees lead to happy customers and stellar business results. Now, we’re taking that idea even further with our biggest effort yet to put our ...

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, ...

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 ...

It seems you can't discuss continuous integration (CI) and delivery without talking about three other very deeply interrelated topics: Agile, DevOps, and a testing strategy such as behavior driven or ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board agreed to release a draft proposal to simplify accounting for internal use software costs by, among other things, no longer considering the development stage ...