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New report from UK NAO on Agile
The UK National Audit Office (like the US GAO) has issued a report on the use of Agile Project Management in the 17 central UK Government departments. You can find the report here: National Audit...
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Is 2013 the year of Agile in the US Federal Government?
Even though different forms of Agile have been around for many years it really took off in the commercial world in 2007/2008 as the financial crisis pushed companies to do more with less and to be...
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Is ‘Modular Contracting’ agile, or just nimble? – Guest Blogger Brian Wernham
By Guest Blogger and Author of Agile Project Management for Government: Brian Wernham Brian Wernham – Author and Consultant In 1996 the Clinger-Cohen IT Management Reform Act of 1996 (ITMRA) required...
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Government plans £100m digital framework for agile development
Here is an interesting approach coming out of the UK: A ‘neutral vendor’ will be responsible for providing suppliers to support government departments By Derek du Preez | Computerworld UK | Published...
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Will Budget Cuts Drive Adoption of Agile?
When the recession hit US commercial companies in 2007/2008 CIO’s had to do more with less and turned to Agile as one of the tools to enable increase productivity with lower cost. I remember seeing...
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Presentation on Software Project Management at DC Chapter of the PMI
Catch another great event at the DC Chapter called “Agile Planning and Performance Metrics for Government Projects” register here. ————————————————————————————- Software development projects can be...
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Good GAO read about the VA and Agile, as well as, other items…
The “Witness Testimony of Joel C. Willemssen, Managing Director, Information Technology, U.S. Government Accountability Office” is a fascinating read… Makes me wonder if they are really doing agile or...
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Brian’s Questions
Great article titled Agile government: What the UK can learn from the US in Computer Weekly by Brian Wernham. Brian asks: How many projects are actually using agile? Here are a few that can be...
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More on Earned Value — You can get a lot done for $19.99M…
Richard Cheng recently posted a great article on Agile Connection titled Agile and Federal Governance – A Look at Contracts and Earned Value Management Glen B. Alleman did a nice add on at his blog as...
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Is the Universal Credit project a failure of Agile or a bad implementation of...
The following is from Computer Weekly The Department for Work and Pensions has dropped a coalition government scheme to avert software disasters from its £2bn Universal Credit programme. The DWP gave...
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US Postal Service using Agile….
Suzanne Miller from SEI just posted a link to a story about the US Postal service using Agile successfully. It’s such an great story that I thought I’d create a post. FCW wrote a story that you...
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WOW–Check out the UK!
From Information-Age.com titled “UK govt launches framework for buying Agile development services” Suppliers that wish to offer their services through the framework, known as the Digital Services...
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WOW–Check out Singapore
From Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore The Government will call for a bulk tender on agile software development which will provide government agencies with access to a range of suppliers with...
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Agile in Defense
I attended a great AFEI workshop this week called Agile in Defense where 100 Govs and Agile SMEs got together to talk about the challenges of using Agile on government programs. Much was said about...
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Way to go Massachusetts!
On the Mass.gov blog there is a story about how Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office’s Chief Information Officer Kevin Coluci is using Agile. “Kevin’s stand up meeting room is equipped with a Scrum...
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The Strategic Management Plan is the DOD’s highest-level plan for improving business operations. It lays out the Department’s priority business goals, objectives, measures, and initiatives, is...
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Check out what the Digital Services Innovation Center is doing with Agile…
See full blog post here. excerpt from blog: This project is an ongoing experiment where we have applied agile software development processes to policy-making. We used intensive, facilitated “agile...
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Good Information Week Article
I just read a good article that Lawrence Fitzpatrick posted on Information Week’s Government site titled 3 Agile Government Myths, Busted Where Lawrence details out 3 myths as follows: Myth #1: Agile...
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Great Video on Earned Value
Found this on scrumdotorg’s YouTube channel. This video does a very good job explaining Scrum in an Earned Value world.
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