Earned Value Reporting on Agile Software Development Programs within the Department of Defense

Abstract

The correct measurement of earned value on agile software development programs has recently been identified as a concern by software developers implementing agile development methods. This research attempts to address the difficulties in reporting earned value on agile development programs, and the differences between the measures of completion in agile development versus earned value reporting. The major difference was identified to be in translating between the work originally planned and the work that was recently planned as part of the agile development process. This difference, if not transparent, leads to different measurements of earned value and inconsistent reports of a program's progress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2016
Accession Number
AD1054095

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth G. Hodson

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • Program Management
  • Software Development
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.