Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “value” was produced for a given cost in a period of time. One shortcoming of an agile development method is its inability to forecast the future cost and schedule of the project beyond the use of “yesterdays weather” metrics. Th...

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The constituting e-government organizations like ministries, agencies, funds and councils often have to deal with severe media attention and sometimes more or less justified criticism. In this paper we present an approach that supports the task of managing public relations (PR) between organizations and the news media. The proposed approach is based on agile sentiment analysis of the questions ...

Adaption of processes inside a public administration are often seen as a necessary precondition for the introduction of mature e-Government services. Bureaucracies however, are specifically reluctant to change. Following the principles of agile software development and applying them to organizational aspects as well, this paper describes a pragmatic approach to the introduction of high quality ...

It is possible to combine Agile and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), but few organizations are doing this in practice. There are many challenges to be overcome, not the least of which is the very different mindsets of adherents of each approach. More importantly, we have a better option available to us in the form of the Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework. The DA process decision fram...

According to a recent Gartner report, Turkey is among the emerging economies and in the list of top 30 countries for Information Technology (IT), and offshore services. In the last decade, the country has done excellent progress in the software sector which is reflected in the rise of exports to many countries. In this article, we present an overview of the Turkey’s software sector scenario inc...

The convergence of mobile communication and mobile computing technologies opens up new horizons for mobile interaction and mobile working. The use of mobile technology in the government sector not only provides an alternative channel of communication and public service delivery, but more importantly, it can address the mobility of the government itself and in this way transcend the traditional ...

Iterative development is a common characteristic of agile methods. It is important to understand how the adoption of an iterative process provides business value, and how this value can be used to buy management support to implement other agile techniques. This paper exposes to the community an experience report of a large government agency’s migration from a Waterfall process to an iterative m...