Vanessa Jackson

Aug 7, 2023 | insights.sei.cmu.edu | David Sweeney |Vanessa Jackson |Joe Yankel |Lyndsi A. Hughes

The modern software engineering practices of Agile and DevSecOps have revolutionized the practice of software engineering. These strategies have provided a foundation for producing working software products faster and more reliably than ever before. However, we found that most literature about Agile and DevSecOps focuses on the product and ignores the business mission and capability-delivery aspects of every software product under development.

May 1, 2023 | insights.sei.cmu.edu | Bill Nichols |Julie Cohen |Vanessa Jackson |Matthew Heckathorn

As the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) commander, you are told that intelligence has discovered that an adversary has unexpected capabilities. Therefore, you need to reprioritize capabilities. You inform the program manager (PM) for your advanced aircraft platform that the lower priority capability for the whiz-bang software for sensor fusion that was on the roadmap 18 months from now will need to become the top priority and be delivered in the next six months.