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 ...

Agile development focuses on delivering new features or products that could be demonstrated or even go to market at the end of each one-week to one-month development period, called sprints. Agile ...

Combining 28 disparate Soldier and civilian training systems into one cohesive system requires more than extensive planning. It demands collaboration, prioritizing people over processes, and a ...

Story points help Agile teams estimate effort, but they’re far from perfect. Learn how story points work, why teams use them, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The maximum length of an Agile sprint is one calendar month. The Scrum Guide states explicitly ...

A fundamental scrum team practice is committing to the prioritized work at the start of the sprint and then fully completing it at its conclusion. Strong agile teams complete or exceed their sprint ...

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 ...

Agile practices, to the uninitiated and underinformed, can sometimes appear as ad hoc software development and project management methodologies. The truth is far different. Most teams elect to use an ...

Recent modernization throughout the Army has spawned several fast-moving initiatives designed to accelerate the timeline for developing and fielding tactical network and associated software-provided ...