Don't Incentivize the Wrong Behaviors in Agile Development

All too often, organizations collect certain metrics just because those are the metrics that they've always collected. Ordinarily, if an organization finds the metrics useful, there is no issue....

July 20, 2020 • By Patrick Place, Will Hayes

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Agile Metrics: A New Approach to Oversight

There's been a widespread movement in recent years from traditional waterfall development to Agile approaches in government software acquisition programs. This transition has created the need for personnel who oversee …

December 17, 2017 • By Will Hayes

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Five Perspectives on Scaling Agile

The prevalence of Agile methods in the software industry today is obvious. All major defense contractors in the market can tell you about their approaches to implementing the values and …

February 19, 2017 • By Will Hayes, Mary Ann Lapham, Suzanne Miller, Eileen Wrubel, Peter Capell

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SEI Researchers Provide Congressional Testimony on Social Security

On July 14, 2016, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security convened a hearing on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) information technology modernization plan. This blog post, the …

July 28, 2016 • By Suzanne Miller, Will Hayes, Eileen Wrubel

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Agile Metrics: Seven Categories

More and more, suppliers of software-reliant Department of Defense (DoD) systems are moving away from traditional waterfall development practices in favor of agile methods....

September 21, 2014 • By Will Hayes

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