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Making Agile Work for Government: Addressing the Challenges of Agile Adoption Erich Knausenberger and Raj Shah examine the challenges of implementing earned value management and program management to implementing agile for government IT. Then, the authors propose a “blended-approach” by which government and other large entities can address these and other challenges. |
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Transition to Agile: Large Technical Debt, Small Project When you transition to agile and you have a reasonably size codebase, chances are quite good that you’ve been working on the product for a while. You certainly have legacy ways of thinking about the code and the tests. Now learn how to work yourself out of the technical debt you have accumulated. |
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Making Agile Work for Government: Perceived Challenges to Agile Adoption Erich Knausenberger and Raj Shah examine three perceived challenges to agile adoption in the government space and explore how the "blended approach" to agile adoption offers an effective response to each. |
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Making Agile Work for Government: A Blended Approach As technology development programs represent some of the biggest line items on agency budgets, there should be little surprise that agile development, with its promise of a fast, lightweight, and iterative approach to delivery of value, has caught the attention of officials from across the government space as they seek to improve their programs’ productivity and effectiveness. |
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Livestock Improvement Goes Agile Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) is one of the largest integrated herd-improvement organizations in the world. This is the story of how LIC transitioned from a successful, traditional development process to one with hyper-productive agile teams that produce software faster, better, and cheaper. |
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Embracing Change and Complexity Louis J. Taborda explains that in order to be successful, we need to be able to embrace both change and complexity while being agile. The more quickly we develop software and the greater the sophistication of the solutions we build, the more difficult it is to maintain agility. |
Louis Taborda
April 19, 2012 |
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Seven Things to Do before Starting an Agile Transformation Where does innovation come from, and how do we get there? Building the next great product may require companies to undergo an agile transformation. |
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Empowering Agile Teams Teams, when truly empowered, will always make better decisions than any one individual. Where can you empower teams as you adopt agile? |
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Agile Customer Validation Vision When applying validation, should you limit yourself to the end-of-sprint review or demo—the practice most people associate with agile validation—or should you utilize other validation types where customers provide feedback? Where do the customers who attend validation sessions come from? In this article, you will learn about the importance of the ACVV and how to establish a vision to benefit the product and each project therein. |
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Four Agile Tips to Eliminate Rework in Application Development Your applications need to meet business needs, overcome complex processes, and provide instant results to customers. And, ideally, they’ll require minimal rework on your part. The first step to success is requirements definition. Here, Filip Szymanski offers some tips from agile methods that will improve your requirements—even if you haven’t otherwise adopted agile. |
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