A Seat at the Table – IT Leadership in the Age of Agility – Part 2 By Mark Schwartz “To the talented and hard-working government employees, so resilient in the face of impediments, criticism, and abuse the enterprise’s needs precisely. Risk is low, because the team is constantly adjusting.  Option 2: Compare that to the risk of buying a vendor’s product, where the investment is one large lump sum—and doesn’t have financial incentives to supportyou. Text “1” to @obvious if you like the first option, or “2” to @/dev/null if you prefer the second. Governance and Oversight Governance has traditionally been

Agility By Mark Schwartz “Mark Schwartz is a rare combination: a deep thinker who has also applied lean, Agile, and DevOps principles at the highest level, leading an extraordinary Agile transformation simply says that we should empower small teams to inspect and adapt rather than stick to a plan. Lean thinking gives that small team ways to speed up its inspecting and adapting process to maximize its can optimize the whole – a term of art in lean thinking – and be empowered as a team to own the entire value delivery process. Brining Lean Principles to Software Development: Kanban

The DevOps Handbook – Part 1 & 2 1. Preface xi a. Myth—DevOps is Only for Startups: b. Myth—DevOps Replaces Agile c. Myth—DevOps is incompatible with ITIL d. Myth—DevOps is Incompatible with Information is Just “Infrastructure as Code” or Automation: g. Myth—DevOps is Only for Open Source Software: 2. Foreword xix 3. Imagine a World Where Dev and Ops Become DevOps: a. THE CORE, CHRONIC CONFLICT i which must be pursued simultaneously: 1. Respond to the rapidly changing competitive landscape 2. Provide stable, reliable, and secure service to the customer b. THE BUSINESS VALUE OF DEVOPS i. Code

........................... 1 2 Agile Development Fundamentals ................................................................................................... 2 II. Implementing an Agile Approach and process owners can reach the full potential of Agile development. Agile Acquisition Guide2 This document is structured to provide an overview of Agile development and recommendations for DoD guide also includes dozens of hyperlinks to external sources for further research and information. 2 Agile Development Fundamentals Agile development emerged in 2001, when 17 leading software developers

“Courage, I say, is the value most needed by Agile IT leaders.” – Mark Schwartz Last Time in Part 2 Enterprise Architecture: The job of IT leaders is not to execute projects on behalf of the business; objectives and produce investment themes that accomplish those objectives. When combined with Agile and Lean practices, this approach can focus IT planning, reduce risk, eliminate waste, and provide a supportive creating value. If you missed last month, you can find the handout for Part 2 on the Agile4Defense GitHub page at: https://git.io/JeaO2 Risk The presence of uncertainty is the simple reason why Agile approaches

Prctices 1 Shawn Stumme Continuous Delivery 4 Josh Wade Cyber Security through Agile 2 Nick Tuck Maximizing Retrospectives 2 Ray Page Open Agile Topics 0 Jason Beranek Application Transparency 0 Ed Snodgrass Code - Book Overview 2 Kyle Baardson SAFe: Scaled Agile Framework 3 Brandon McAllister Automation 2 Eric Collins The Servant: Agile Book Club 1 Ron Horner Kanban for the People! 2 Steve Miller Crucial Page Release Planning 2 Darin Plum Agile Coaching 5 Nick Wenner Clean Coder (book review) 2 Josh Sagucio Collaborative Work Environments 3 Scott Grimes Agile Certifications 2 Agile Transformation

Linux  Apache, IIS, TCServer, etc.  Oracle, DB2, SQL Server  How we got better  We read and we studied.  Created a self-improvement project  2 week iterations, planning and demos  Put everything  Do process map.  Do focus on Quality first.  Do start a book club. Book List  Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum, Craig Larman  Continuous About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford.  The Lean Primer, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde Steve Barr steve.barr@csgi.com @srbarr1

com/watch?v=RXzurBazN-I Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): Dean Leffingwell - Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements for Teams Programs and the Enterprise (2011) and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices Code quality - can't scale crappy code  Program execution  Alignment  Transparency House of Lean: "We need to figure out a way to deliver software so fast that our customers don't have time to change

structures (standard C, IDIQ, BPA, GWAC, set-aside, etc.) can support Lean-Agile contracts All types (FFP, T&M, CPFF, CPAF, etc.) can support Lean-Agile contracts ...In exercising initiative, Government members

There, the past two administrations—first a Republican, now a Democrat —have embraced what they call Lean government. The current governor, Jay Inslee, said in a campaign interview in the fall of 2012, “A from any campaign platform: 1. A “world-class” education system from preschool through college; 2. A “prosperous economy”; 3. Making Washington a national leader in sustainable energy and a clean environment;