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Many medical device companies develop software using a traditional waterfall methodology in which each step is taken in sequence: requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation ...

Pressure grows for software better aligned with business. Agile techniques have been stagnant for a decade. AI may speed up Agile team output. Agile has always had the best intentions: work side by ...

Shallow backlogs, missed commitments, low morale, and defects may indicate your agile process needs more than a few minor tweaks. Do you call your agile development process “fragile,” “hybrid ...

Projects that use the Agile development process fail 65% of the time versus lean engineering at 21% and a new method called Impact Engineering at 10%, according to a new study conducted for the book ...

In July 2019, the Cuyahoga County Council learned that its enterprise resource planning system would take four more months to complete and would cost an additional $7.7 million. The delay was on top ...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the triple threat of additive, agility and automation—three forces that were already reshaping manufacturing and product development. Fast forward to 2025, and these trends ...

The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, today’s startups need to ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The pace of technological advances and the evolving threat require the Army to accelerate how it delivers capability. Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic ...