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 ...

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 ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile development ...

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 ...

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Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...