Research by Gartner reveals that 30% to 40% of IT spending in large enterprises is consumed by "shadow IT." This is a startling number, especially for those of us working tirelessly to secure budget ...

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New research shows that more and more companies are turning to agile business methods to achieve a competitive advantage. Here's why. CollabNet VersionOne, last month published research revealing why ...

Agile boasts a collaborative structure, which naturally leads to greater transparency and communication for tech teams. By design, it has a short feedback loop compared to other methodologies. When ...

Agile and Scrum are not competing concepts. In fact, to implement the Scrum methodology properly, you must approach it with an Agile mindset. To do Scrum right, product development teams must be Agile ...

If the effort works, the federal IT community should think about how to make agile a more common approach in government, writes blogger Steve Kelman. Friends of improved government IT management will ...

Illustration of Golden Dome technology. Credit: Redwire. Big systems projects are nothing novel in defense acquisition. However, a big systems project delivered fast and at an affordable cost is more ...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity in industry although they compromise a mix of accepted and controversial software engineering practices. Both global software development and agile ...

Many businesses are investing heavily in digital transformation, gearing up their cultures to deliver more capabilities aligned to customer needs. But understanding business value and aligning efforts ...

Have you ever admired a leader so dialed into their long-term mission that it seems nothing can shake their focus? Every move appears premeditated, every milestone perfectly timed. Now think about a ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...

In July 2019, the Cuyahoga County Council learned that its enterprise resource planning system would take four more months to complete and would cost an additional $7.7 million. The delay was on top ...