AGILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
AGILE DevOps: A Path to the Common Ground of Productivity. Best of breed analytics solutions must bridge the gap between data science and production to unify development and deployment into an agile methodology. With that in mind, Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku, has put together an interesting guidebook that discusses how to achieve that level of synergy to build a data project that embodies the ideologies of agility. Read more
[GIGAOM.COM]
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS: Blueprint’s Storyteller Auto-Generates User Stories for Agile Teams. Blueprint is trying to solve one of the biggest problems it sees in the agile industry: user stories. According to the company, too often teams misunderstand project requirements, which result in costly delays and revisions. To solve this, Blueprint is launching Storyteller, a new solution designed to auto-generate high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria. Read the rest
[SDTIMES.COM]
CONTRACTING: Agile Software Development Brings New Contracting Issues. Creating software using an agile software development (“ASD”) methodology is not a new concept, but it is rapidly gaining popularity among software developers based on the notion that ASD yields workable code sooner and in a more efficient manner. However, traditional “waterfall” software development approaches do not easily lend themselves to contracting under an ASD approach. Read more
[LAW360.COM]
EPA: How Agile Development Aids FITARA Compliance. As chief information officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ann Dunkin is charged with modernizing the IT infrastructure of the 15,000-person strong office. In a recent interview, Dunkin spoke about the progress that EPA is making in reforming its IT acquisition process and the challenge of shifting from legacy systems to agile development. Read the rest
[FEDERALTIMES.COM]
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