Title :
Successful Integration of Agile Development Techniques within DISA
Author_Institution :
Pragmatics, Inc., McLean
Abstract :
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) have historically operated on 18-36 months release cycles for major IT projects. DISA is now striving towards delivering smaller components in 30-60-90 day release cycles. This paper discusses Pragmatics´ successful implementation of agile development techniques into a non-agile shop, our introduction of agile development techniques to DISA to help them achieve their goal of delivering high quality software on shorter release cycles, and our lessons learned along the way.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; software engineering; Defense Information Systems Agency; Department of Defense; agile development techniques; high quality software; pragmatics; Application software; Automatic testing; Command and control systems; Keyboards; Open source software; Programming profession; Service oriented architecture; Software quality; Software testing; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Agile Conference (AGILE), 2007
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2872-4
DOI :
10.1109/AGILE.2007.54
