As technical jargon goes, “agile development” has a great ring to it. Even to business managers, it sounds dynamic and vibrant — just the thing to speed up production and rescue a flagging software ...

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 ...

Raytheon is delivering new software functions that are two to ten times faster as part of its contract to modernize the US Air Force’s Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System using agile ...

To speed the development of a critical Web-based financial system, Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. made Agile methods a part of its project plan. Launched at year’s end, the application suite, ...

As organizations face growing demands for speed, quality and adaptability, traditional performance improvement methods and Agile development practices alone often fall short. While Agile methodologies ...

Agile methods software development (also called Agile Modelling, denoted AG for short) reduce software lifecycle time (thus speeding up development) by firstly creating a prototype version, then ...

Workday was founded on the belief that happy and engaged employees lead to happy customers and stellar business results. Now, we’re taking that idea even further with our biggest effort yet to put our ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board agreed to release a draft proposal to simplify accounting for internal use software costs by, among other things, no longer considering the development stage ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

Federal agencies are embracing agile development, but new ways of thinking are needed to make it work at government scale. Contracts Innovation Software Development Over the last few years, government ...

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