approach that characterizes Agile development. Although broad adoption of Agile methods across the commercial world has spawned countless books, articles, and websites, that literature focuses specifically government context, Agile represents a good development approach when customizing an existing system or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product, or building a small-scale or self-constrained application. In other make it impossible for the government to institute the pure Agile environment that exists in the commercial sector. Before committing their programs to the transition, program managers must understand

out in a dramatic fireball from space, or will the Four Horsemen ride in just as we start our TV commercial campaign? I will turn off my sarcasm engine for a moment. Look—it turns out that the future involves definitions of done, product roadmaps, and, well, in the government, about 100 different piles of paper.  Now, I believe that this was a dead end: it was a Waterfall solution to the problem. A Better

fall of 2012, “A lot of what the state does is make decisions. We want to find a way to leave less paper on a desk.”1 The governor’s plan has five points that could have been plucked from any campaign

minutes 3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings 4. When the Pomodoro rings, put a checkmark on a paper 5. Take a short break 6. Every 4 Pomodoros, take a longer break What does this buy me? 1. Find

Make Ourselves Do What We Want to Do  Example: Vehicle Maintenance, E-mail  Experiment: Class paper deadlines  Observations: o “We found that the students in the class with the three firm deadlines