Agile at Scale and the Agile Manifesto and Principles in Federal Acquisition

The Agile Manifesto and the Principles of Agile have turned into a solution looking for a problem to solve. The "founders" of these concepts have worked in commercial businesses and have provided powerful approaches to the problems found in those domains. The Federal Government's IT for FY 2023 is $87,393 Billion. The Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act requires that agencies that have chosen to adopt agile practices routinely do better than their peers.

Despite issues along the way, the federal government is taking on a leadership role in the use of agile business practices to improve effectiveness while accomplishing business goals.

In the domain of software intensive system of systems, other forces are in place, starting with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement. These governance frameworks guide how the government's money is spent, and the individual making decisions on the left side of the Manifesto needs to consult in that spending.

More Materials on Agile in the Complex Systems Domain and their Performance Management

Here's a collection of Conference Briefings, Training Materials & Master Classes for Successfully Managing Traditional & Agile Complex System of Systems for our Defense, Space, Petrochemical, Embedded Control Systems, and Process Safety Management and Safeguards where agile has been used since the 1970s.

So before any solution is selected, identify the problem, the governance in the problem work space, tangible evidence that the solution works in the domain, and the root causes, the proposed solution will provide the needed preventive and corrective actions and follow Albert's advice.