• DocumentCode
    3298561
  • Title

    Successful Integration of Agile Development Techniques within DISA

  • Author

    Cohan, Sean

  • Author_Institution
    Pragmatics, Inc., McLean
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    13-17 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    255
  • Lastpage
    261
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Agile Conference (AGILE), 2007
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2872-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AGILE.2007.54
  • Filename
    4293605