@inproceedings{75e339553b934276bfb1e2525ca4edf8,
title = "Agile software development in an earned value world: A survival guide",
abstract = "Agile methodologies are current best practice in software development. They are favored for, among other reasons, preventing premature optimization by taking a somewhat short-Term focus, and allowing frequent replans/reprioritizations of upcoming development work based on recent results and current backlog. At the same time, funding agencies prescribe earned value management accounting for large projects which, these days, inevitably include substantial software components. Earned Value approaches emphasize a more comprehensive and typically longer-range plan, and tend to characterize frequent replans and reprioritizations as indicative of problems. Here we describe the planning, execution and reporting framework used by the LSST Data Management team, that navigates these opposite tensions.",
keywords = "Agile Process, Earned Value, Project Management, Software Engineering",
author = "Jeffrey Kantor and Kevin Long and Jacek Becla and Frossie Economou and Margaret Gelman and Mario Juric and Ron Lambert and Simon Krughoff and Swinbank, {John D.} and Xiuqin Wu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII ; Conference date: 26-06-2016 Through 28-06-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2233380",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Philippe Dierickx and Angeli, {George Z.}",
booktitle = "Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII",
}