Agile Project Management is built around a flexible approach. Team members work in short bursts on small-scale but functioning releases Add to My Personal Learning Plan of a product. They then test each release against customers' needs, instead of aiming for a single final result that is o ...
The more traditional cumbersome methodologies like waterfall typically require entire project groups to meet and discuss full project goals throughout each phase. Agile, however, uses smaller more focused groups that meet more frequently to discuss very specific goals, making it easier to ...
Building solutions based on pre-existing Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) packages is different from typical green-field development. Numerous projects have unsuccessfully tried to integrate pre-existing COTS packages by defining the requirements, formulating an architecture to meet those r ...
Let’s think about it: Is SAFe the new RUP (Rational Unified Process)? Be careful, before you give the answer to this question above, remind yourself that there are more things between Agile and Companies, "than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
Using IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®, you can systematically improve the way you create and maintain requirements–and use those requirements to build more effective, higher-quality software. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, hands-on guide to optimally using RequisiteP ...
As a new I/T Program Management Office (PMO) within a mid-tier Property and Casualty Insurance Company, our primary goal was to implement standard methods and processes that would improve our delivery of software development products. On a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) scale ...
The success rate of information technology (IT) projects is well documented in literature; the most notable is “Extreme CHAOS” by The Standish Group. In addition, individual organizations provide a wealth of antidotal evidence that support The Standish Group's findi ...
Master win–win techniques for managing outsourced and offshore projects, from procurement and risk mitigation to maintenance Use RUP to implement best-practice project management throughout the software development lifecycle Overcome key management cha ...
Adoption of CMMI in organizations using agile is steadily increasing. In 2015, over 70% of CMMI appraised organizations reported using one or more agile approaches. Organizations leverage the CMMI to scale and strengthen agile Organizations use CMMI to address busi ...
CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development an ...