Blog Posts
Saying Why: Persona-Based Metrics With User Stories
This post discusses how to reframe metrics as user stories to improve their relevance and utility.
• By Will Hayes, Patrick Place
In Agile
Operator-Feedback Sessions in a Government Setting: The Good and Not-So-Good Parts
This post covers good and not-so-good practices and outcomes in operator-feedback sessions in government environments.
• By Michael Szegedy, Timothy Chick
In Agile
Agile Metrics: Assessing Progress to Plans
The role of metrics in a government program’s assessment of progress in an iterative, incremental delivery of a system.
• By Will Hayes, Patrick Place, Keith Korzec
In Agile
Considerations for Operator-Feedback Sessions in Government Settings
This post describes a design approach that considers operator feedback and effectively leverages feedback sessions.
• By Michael Szegedy, Timothy Chick
In Agile
Show Me Agility: Agile Strategy Execution
The rapid pace of change in software development, in business, and in the world has many organizations struggling to execute daily operations, wrangle big projects, and feel confident that there …
• By Linda Parker Gates
In Agile
Mission-Based Prioritization: A New Method to Sequence Features, Capabilities, and Epics
Prioritization identifies the sequence in which requirements should be addressed and allows end users and stakeholders to evaluate and provide feedback on the most valuable features of the evolving system. …
• By Keith Korzec
In Agile
The Latest Work from the SEI: Microservices, Ransomware, and Agile in Government
As part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work, this blog post summarizes some recently published SEI reports, podcasts, conference papers....
• By Douglas C. Schmidt
In Agile
3 Metrics to Incentive the Right Behavior in Agile Development
The use of incentives to elicit certain behaviors in agile software development can often result in unintended consequences....
• By Patrick Place
In Agile
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....
• By Patrick Place, Will Hayes
In Agile
Model-Based Analysis of Agile Development Practices
Applications of Agile development practices in government are providing experience that decision makers can use to improve policy, procedure, and practice....
• By Andrew Moore, Bill Nichols, Bill Novak, David Zubrow
In Agile
