releases. Acquisition executives must also streamline the decision process by empowering small, dynamic, government-contractor teams. Agile cannot solve all of the DoD’s IT acquisition challenges, but engineering processes, managing requirements, and developing cost estimates for programs with a dynamic scope. Experience indicates that cultural changes must occur if programs are to implement Agile throughout development to ensure high operational value Agile is built around a culture of small, dynamic, empowered teams actively collaborating with stakeholders throughout product development. Agile

stakeholders have a clear and agreed-upon understanding of the desired functions. They offer a far more dynamic approach to managing requirements than large requirements documents.  DON’T treat planning as a

possible run-time behaviors and seek out coding flaws, back doors, and potentially malicious code2. Dynamic Analysis – tests executed while a program is in operation. Monitor items such as memory, functional