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 ...

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 ...

Maine CIO Jim Smith has managed software development projects for 35 years, mostly in Fortune 500 companies. For much of that time, he wanted a better approach. “We have always struggled with finding ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

For learning and design professionals, one of the biggest challenges of creating employee training is keeping up with constant skill shortages in each industry. Technology, processes and procedures ...

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 ...

Many people ask how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ensures Section 508 compliance in Agile projects – especially when Section 508 testing is still largely manual. The short answer ...

Agile is emerging as the prevailing methodology for software development. According to the 12 th Annual State of Agile Report, a survey conducted by VersionOne and published earlier this year, 97% of ...