This is the presentation for the Agile Tour DC Conference 22 October.

1. Chasing Windmills? Getting Agile Success in Government Paul M. Boos

3. Which do we see?

4. Why should we care?

5. Transparency

6. Speed

7. Value

8. Why doesn’t the Gov’t use Agile?

9. Software Engineering

10. Understanding

11. Perceived Barriers

12. Challenges

13. Bureaucracy?

14. Gov’t Organizations This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl Tend to be here! (sheer size)

15. Policy?

16. Brings Order?

17. Gov’t Policies This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl Tend to be here! (in theory)

18. Complexity or Complication?

19. Complicated + Complex Overrides Ordered + Simple + = Process Team Result

20. … 1 2 3 n Worse Case Best Case

21. We’re lazy…?

22. Maybe Afraid?

23. Mistakes are not tolerated…

24. We don’t take time to read (or write) our policies…

25. We let others tell us what the policies mean…

26. Some basic magic…

28. Business Software is a Craft

29. It takes skill… … and

30. Creativity

32. Grass Roots Motivation Top Down Support Agile Success

33. Strive to decomplicate… This model courtesy of Jurgen Appelo; please visit his blog at http://noop.nl Help teams operate as simple and ordered as possible.

35. Apply the pants principle… Simple process adopted by the team doing the work. + Process Team

37. Hesitate Δ ing for 1 problem

38. What about… E A V M E B E D G U P R A S S D L C T

39. Simplify Simple Process = Easy Auditing Focus on Delivering Business Value Align Milestones w/Releasable Software Systems Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)

40. Enterprise Architecture

41. Graft and Prune EA Components

44. The Iron Triangle Agilified

45. Estimate Scope Budget Work to… Schedule Scope Budget Schedule Prioritized Epics Epic 1 Epic 2 Epic 3 Epic 4 Epic 5 … Budget/Schedule + Mgmt Reserve > An Approach for Executing Projects w/Agility

46. Execute on small slices!

47. Classic EVM Design Analyze Develop Deploy $ 01001101 11101000 10010010

49. Scrum Process Release Release Plan

50. Release $ Scrum-based EVM

51. Personnel Annual Review System

53. Remove the blame culture It’s not the rebel alliance!

54. Advanced Wizardry

55. Clean the Windows! Demand and Give Transparency

56. Retrospect

57. Experiment!

58. Set a vision… and

59. help your teams see it!

61. There’s nothing to fear.

62. Paul Boos @paul_boos [email_address] http://coactivate.org/projects/agile-influencers-of-dc