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In modern-day working environments, Agile is becoming an increasingly popular project management methodology used to organize projects. Although it originated in the software development industry, ...

Three years after the first pilot, the Postal Service has delivered more than 50 projects using agile methodologies. (USPS photo) The U.S. Postal Service's information technology infrastructure is one ...

When one of the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto calls on developers to run away from agile development initiatives, you know something has lost its way. Basically, organizations have applied the ...

The General Services Administration announced it has awarded contracts to 16 firms, using a new kind of contracting vehicle designed to streamline the acquisition of software development services for ...

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 ...

The Government Accountability Office identified 32 practices and approaches it believes to be effective for applying agile software development methods to information technology projects. The ...

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 ...

An umbrella term for a variety of best practices in creating applications and information systems. These methods have proven to be more effective in dealing with changing requirements during the ...

The big IT burden posed by new regulations has an impact on project management, with institutions turning to more efficient methods of developing applications to meet the demands of a fast changing ...

WASHINGTON -- The recession has changed a lot of things about IT, particularly in the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who have an encyclopedic-like range of skills. That change is ...