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Conference Paper Risk Management, Scheduling, Agile, Information Technology, Government 29 October 2013

Success with agile in a federal environment

By Garrison, Richard Federal IT projects often run over budget and behind schedule, or fail to deliver promised functionality. Many projects use "grand design' approaches that aim to deliver functionality every few…

Article Agile, Scheduling, Information Technology June 2013

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A healthy hybrid

By Schupak, Amanda When the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a mandatory update for the codes doctors and hospitals use to report and charge for patient services, it gave providers five years…

Article Agile, SCRUM, Information Technology May 2013

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Learn before you leap

By Lang, Toby Transitioning to an agile process like Scrum can be challenging. This article reports how one project manager's organization transitioned to agile quickly and notes how the organization failed to…

Article Agile, Strategy, Information Technology December 2012

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Fortune tellers

By Sultan, Saleh | Casey, Alan | Castellan, Martin | Dunston, Laurie N. The month of December is the time when many make predictions for the upcoming year. This article features four project professionals forecasting changes that will occur in the project management…

Conference Paper Agile, Information Technology 23 October 2012

Hybrid waterfall agile development for the federal space

By Salinas, Erica M | Boyne, Loraine Historically, the Waterfall methodology has been ingrained in U.S. federal software development contracts with requirements determined prior to software development. However, in 2010, the focus…

Article Agile, Information Technology September 2012

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Change agent

By Kerner, Bob This article features the senior vice president and chief digital officer at New York Stock Exchange Euronext (New York, NY, USA) discussing how his company made agile methodologies the centerpiece…

Conference Paper Agile, Information Technology 18 July 2012

Defining a conceptual categorization model for agile software development projects

By Spundak, Mario Agile project management has received a lot of attention recently, although much more among practitioners than among researchers. Compared with a traditional approach, it can offer benefits to some…

Article Agile, Information Technology June 2012

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Step by step

By Jackson, Michelle Bowles Agile's ever-growing popularity has encouraged project managers to consider approaches beyond established techniques, and the traditional waterfall approach doesn't always work for projects with…

Conference Paper Agile, SCRUM, Information Technology 9 May 2012

Trust--the key for successful delivery using agile methods

By Petrén, Mattias Georgson Trust between the deliverer and receiver is a necessity when delivering projects using agile project management. Referring to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, people interaction,…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Agile, Information Technology 22 October 2011

Balancing agility with conformance on complex government programs

By Zaleski, Peter S. | Bostian, Christopher B. | McDyer, Christopher J. Complex government transformation programs are subject to many of the same challenges encountered on commercial programs of similar size and scope. Government programs face additional challenges…