INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REFORM: Agencies Need to Increase Their Use of Incremental Development Practices

Abstract

GAO is making 12 recommendations to 8 agencies to improve reporting of incremental data on the IT Dashboard and policies for CIO certification of adequate incremental development. Five departments agreed with our recommendations, the Department of Defense partially agreed with one and disagreed with another, OMB did not agree or disagree, and the Department of the Treasury did not comment on the recommendations. GAO continues to believe its recommendations are appropriate.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1166835

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