How the FBI Learned to Catch Bad Guys One Iteration at a Time

Author

Babuscio, Justin

Author_Institution

High Performance Technol., Inc., Reston, VA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

24-28 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) never stops evolving, High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) found itself struggling to keep up with the changes while maintaining its CMMI III certification. Developers were complaining, clients were getting anxious, software releases were slipping. But what was the problem? Was it CMMI? Was it the environment? Was it HPTi? Through a disciplined approach to agile development, HPTi was able to successfully deliver above expectations. This experience report outlines HPTipsilas successful journey through a CMMI III certification on an FBI software development project and the even more successful transition into agile development.

Keywords

Capability Maturity Model; certification; police data processing; software development management; CMMI III certification; Federal Bureau of Investigation; High Performance Technologies, Inc; agile development; software development project; software releases; Capability maturity model; Certification; Engineering management; History; ISO standards; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Systems engineering and theory; US Government; Agile; CMMI; FBI; HPTi;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Agile Conference, 2009. AGILE '09.

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3768-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AGILE.2009.52

Filename

5261102