What Will It Take to Achieve Agility-at-Scale?

Posted November 25, 2012 | Leadership |

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has a long history of process improvement research, and -- like almost everyone who has proposed a model or method for software -- a long history of fighting misperceptions. Chief among these is the idea that picking the "best" model or method and checking off a series of boxes will fix whatever ails you, indefinitely.

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Douglas Schmidt
Douglas C. Schmidt is a Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering in the Institute for Software Research at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Dr. Schmidt has published 11 books and more than 500 technical papers covering a range of software-related topics, including patterns,… Read More
Anita Carleton
Daniel Harper
Mary Ann Lapham
Ipek Ozkaya
Ipek Ozkaya is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI. With her team, Dr. Ozkaya works to help organizations improve their software development efficiency and system evolution. Her work focuses on software architecture practices, software economics, and requirements management, and her latest publications include articles on Agile architecting, dependency management, and architectural technical debt. Dr. Ozkaya also chairs the… Read More
Ipek Ozkaya
Ipek Ozkaya is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI. With her team, Dr. Ozkaya works to help organizations improve their software development efficiency and system evolution. Her work focuses on software architecture practices, software economics, and requirements management, and her latest publications include articles on Agile architecting, dependency management, and architectural technical debt. Dr. Ozkaya also chairs the… Read More
Linda Gates
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