Sep 10
2012
By Bill Nichols,
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Software Engineering Process Management
This
post is the third and final installment in a three-part series that
explains how Nedbank, one of the largest banks in South Africa, is
rolling out the SEI’s Team Software Process (TSP) throughout its IT organization. In the first post
of this series, I examined how Nedbank addressed issues of quality and
productivity among its software engineering teams using TSP at the
individual and team level. In the second post,
I discussed how the SEI worked with Nedbank to address challenges with
expanding and scaling the use of TSP at an organizational level. In this
post, I first explore challenges common to many organizations seeking
to improve performance and become more agile and conclude by
demonstrating how SEI researchers addressed these challenges in the TSP
rollout at Nedbank.
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Jul 30
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt,
Principal Researcher
While
agile methods have become popular in commercial software development
organizations, the engineering disciplines needed to apply agility to
mission-critical, software-reliant systems are not as well defined or
practiced. To help bridge this gap, the SEI recently hosted the Agile Research Forum.
The event brought together researchers and practitioners from around
the world to discuss when and how to best apply agile methods in
mission-critical environments found in government and many industries.
This blog posting, the fifth and final installment in a multi-part
series highlighting research presented during the forum, summarizes a
presentation I gave on the importance of applying agile methods to common operating platform environments (COPEs) that have become increasingly important for the Department of Defense (DoD).
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Jul 23
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
While agile methods have become popular in commercial software development organizations, the engineering disciplines needed to apply agility to mission-critical, software-reliant systems are not as well defined or practiced. To help bridge this gap, the SEI recently hosted the Agile Research Forum. The event brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss when and how to best apply agile methods in mission-critical environments found in government and many industries. This blog posting, the fourth installment in a multi-part series highlighting research presented during the forum, summarizes a talk by James Over, manager of the Team Software Process (TSP) initiative, who advocated the building of self-managed teams, planning and measuring project process, designing before building, and making quality the top priority, among other principles associated with applying agile methods at-scale.
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Jul 16
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
While
agile methods have become popular in commercial software development
organizations, the engineering disciplines needed to apply agility to
mission-critical, software-reliant systems are not as well defined or
practiced. To help bridge this gap, the SEI recently hosted the Agile Research Forum.
The event brought together researchers and practitioners from around
the world to discuss when and how to best apply agile methods in
mission-critical environments found in government and many industries.
This blog posting, the third installment in a multi-part series
highlighting research presented during the forum, summarizes a
presentation made during the forum by Ipek Ozkaya, a senior researcher in the SEI’s Research, Technology & System Solutions program, who discussed the use of agile architecture practices to manage strategic, intentional technical debt.
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Jul 9
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt,
Principal Researcher
While
agile methods have become popular in commercial software development
organizations, the engineering disciplines needed to apply agility to
mission-critical, software-reliant systems are not as well defined or
practiced. To help bridge this gap, the SEI recently hosted the Agile Research Forum,
which brought together researchers and practitioners from around the
world to discuss when and how to best apply agile methods in
mission-critical environments found in government and many industries.
This blog posting, the second installment in a multi-part series,
summarizes a presentation made during the forum by Mary Ann Lapham, a senior researcher in the SEI’s Acquisition Support Program,
who highlighted the importance of collaboration with end users, as well
as among cross-functional teams, to facilitate the adoption of agile
approaches into DoD acquisition programs.
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