Authority (MDA) and requires most decisions to be made at that level. Development can be effectively managed by a small cross-functional government team. Team Size Many government stakeholders will be in the way DoD conducts business, and programs must rethink how they are staffed, organized, and managed, as well as whether the business processes, governance reviews, and funding models that support noted in the GAO report, several challenges relate to significant differences in how projects are managed in an Agile environment versus a traditional development approach. Previous government attempts

changes, never mutate existing ii. Remove application assumptions about DB version iii. The Canary & Cluster Immune System Release Patterns 1. Canary Strategy a. Automates the release process of promoting environments b. Successful application behavior moves to the next group; failure stops or rolls back 2. Cluster Immune Strategy a. Expands upon Canary. Links production monitoring with release process to automatically

be thought of as a community, or perhaps as a Complex Adaptive System, which needs to be led and managed through an inspect-and- adapt, feedback-and-vision-oriented approach because of its complexity.

REDUCING TECHNICAL DEBT i. Don’t just make the interest payments, pay down the principle ii. If not managed, services become so fragile, delivery grinds to a halt g. INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF WORK i. Keep

required mitigation.  The basic plan would remain valid, and the risk of the unexpected could be managed within the plan by itemizing potential risks, actively working to prevent them, and, if necessary