Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

Agile methodologies for software development offer a number of benefits for medical device companies. Here are some best practices for making the transition. Clark Fortney and Rainy Mumper Many ...

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 ...

(Fort Belvoir, Virginia) More than 200 people from the General Fund Enterprise Business System’s (GFEBS) Development and Modernization (DevMod) product, along with System Support Operations (SSO), ...

We often hear the ongoing debate of Agile versus Waterfall. And while Agile often wins, not every project or company has the product-based model that best fits its method. What we don’t hear about is ...

The traditional model for software development is the waterfall approach, where development “flows” downward like a waterfall through six phases: analysis, design, implementation, validation testing, ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile development ...

Breakthrough ideas often occur when we bring concepts from one field into new and relatively unfamiliar territory. When problems in software development persisted at Schneider Electric R&D, the ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...