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National Interests: Priorities and Security
 

Models of the structure of programs for product acquisition in the USA and their application for software development

Vol. 11, Iss. 1, JANUARY 2015

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Available online: 7 January 2015

Subject Heading: Foreign experience

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Pages: 42-59

Sudakova L.Yu. OOO NVision Consulting, Moscow, Russian Federation
avocadus@gmail.com

The article generalizes the US publications and official documents on software acquisition. The author considers the models of software development adopted in the USA, i.e. "waterfall', spiral, spiral-to-circle, software product line, agile software development. The author analyzes the models in conjunction with the models of the structure of product acquisition programs (traditional, evolutionary, iterative and incremental developments and hybrid ones) differentiating them by application in commercial and government sectors. The article includes the results of using the said models for software development. The operational experience of commercial sector shows that it is possible to reduce cost and term of software development and delivery for IT systems by applying advanced models and techniques of development and structuring of software acquisition. Software for commercial market is developed predominately in accordance with the iterative and incremental development model, which envisages software deliveries in releases with progressive expanding its compatibility options. Software for the US Federal needs, as a rule, has been developed under the traditional model of program acquisition structure, which is characterized by detail development of system requirements and requirements specification, as well as by work implementation exactly as expected by the requirements. This was one of the main reasons why by 2010 large IT programs, for example, in the US Department of Defense, have been implemented over 6-8-year cycle with approximately 18-month cycle of commercial technologies development. This ultimately affected the quality and moral ageing of the development. The author analyzes how Federal agencies are planning to use the commercial sector's best practices to develop software.

Keywords: software development, increment, agile software, program management, information technology acquisition program

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