As the Defense Department leans more toward modern, “agile” software development, program managers and project leadership must remember that many of the systems in development are critical systems ...

Agile Development still requires some level of requirement documentation. However, that documentation has to be scalable and flexible – just like Agile Development itself. This book chapter looks at ...

In Agile development paradigms, new project requirements and goals can appear unexpectedly, while established requirements can shift numerous times. Change is a frank reality of development, and ...

Agile overhauled requirements gathering. Under the Waterfall model, development teams gather software requirements before coding or testing. But Agile radically changes the rules for software ...

Does your company make medical devices? How about cars? Or appliances? Or mobile applications? Do you have an external website? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then your company is a ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

Agile methodologies are a family of nontraditional software development stratgies that have captured the imagination of many who are leery of traditional, process-laden approaches. Agile methodologies ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has failed to implement key practices and appropriate controls to manage its agile software development projects, the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...