Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes to take advantage of the numerous benefits that it offers to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction. To date however, there is no...

In recent years studies have been conducted which suggest thattaking an architecture first approach to managing large softwareprojects can reduce a significant amount of the uncertainty presentin project estimates. As the project progresses, more concreteinformation is known about the planned...