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 ...

Agile software development represents a transformative paradigm in the creation and management of software. By focusing on iterative progress, team collaboration and flexibility, agile practices ...

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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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 ...

“Gone are the days of three-year $50 million software programs. Now, I want returns on investment within three to five months. We need to change the way we develop software so that we can get things ...