When we hear about the roles and responsibilities of the Scrum Master and the Scrumwork processes, here is a handbook built for the State Healthcare Insurance management system, compliant with the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The software produced and managed has to show up every year on or before the needed with the needed capabilities to be compliant with ACA guidelines.
When we hear talk about Agile in the absence of a domain or context, ask where have you applied your suggested ideas?
If there is no list of domains, and the governance frameworks of those domains, the answer if jus a solution looking for a problem to solve
Here's the handbook developed for managing a dozen and ? Scrum Teams working to keep the State ACA system compliant with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services?regulations.
Your domain and context may not be governed by Federal and State regulations, but if it is, here is a compendium of resources for Agile Project Management and Project Performance Management using Earned Value.
This compendium addresses the notion that Agile and Earned Value Management or any other formal program planning and controls process are incompatible. This is not the case, nor has it ever been the case. As explained in Larman's paper as the starting point for debunking this notion:
Supporting and expanding on this history can be found in the following materials used in the domain of Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS), which are well described here.
Managing in this domain starts with these examples:
- Acquisition and Management Concerns for Agile Use in Government Series, a collection of six booklets describing aspects of Agile use in government.
- Agile Lifecycle Process Model, MITRE Corporation.
- Agile Software Teams: How They Engage with Systems Engineering on DoD Acquisition Programs, CMU/SEI-2014-TN-013
- Defense Agile Acquisition Guide: Tailoring DoD IT Acquisition Program Structures and Processes to Rapidly Deliver Capabilities, MITRE Corporation
- Agile and Earned Value Management: Program Managers's Desk Guide, David F. Tervonen, Deputy Director, Integrated Program Management, OUSD(A&S) AAP IPMD, 17 November 2020
- Agile Software Development in the Department of Defense Environment, The Defense Acquisition University
- Addressing the Barriers to Agile Development in DoD, Naval Postgraduate School's 2015 Defense Acquisition Research Symposium,?
- An Industry Practice Guide for Agile on Earned Value Management Programs,?May 26, 2019, Version 1.3 (I'm working on the update to this now)
- Factors Influencing the Decision to Employ Agile Methods on Federal Information Technology Projects, Troy Mueller, Georgetown University, May 2014
- Critical Decision Factors for Agile on Federal Projects, Dr. Troy J. Mueller, The Mitre Corporation, November 2015.
- An Agile Framework to Develop Safety Critical Software for Aircraft, Duane Lee Bacon, Binghamton University, 2018
- Making Agile Development Processes fit for V-Style Certification Procedures, Sergio Bezzecchi, Paolo Crisafulli, Charlotte Pichot, Burkhart Wolff, 9th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Software and Systems (ERTS 2018), Jan 2018, Toulouse, France.
- ED-12C/DO-178C vs. Agile Manifesto - A solution to Agile Development of Certifiable Avionics Systems,?John Marsden1, André Windisch, Rob Mayo, Jürgen Grossi, Julien Villermin, Louis Fabre, Claire Aventini, ERTS 2018, Jan 2018, Toulouse, France.
- Fundamentals of Agile Systems Engineering - Part 1, Rick Dove and Ralph LaBarge, INCOSE International Symposium 2014
- Fundamentals of Agile Systems Engineering - Part 2, Rick Dove and Ralph LaBarge, INCOSE International Symposium 2014
- Improving Software Systems by Flow Control Analysis, Piotr and Poznański Mariusz Wawrowski,?Computer Science, 13, (2), 2012.
- Potential Use of Agile Methods in Selected DoD Acquisition: Requirements Development and Management, Dr. Kenneth E. Nidiffer, Suzzane M. Miller, and Dr. David Carney, Software Engineering Institute, April 2014.
- Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods,?Larri Rosser, Raytheon Intelligence, INCOSE Enchantment Chapter, July 8, 2015
- Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods, Larri Rosser, Phyllis Marbach, Gundars Osvalds, and David Lempia,?
- New EVM Constructs to Support Agile Development: Human Performance and EVMS, International Conference on Software Engineering. Research and Practice | SERP'16 |
- Agile EVM: Adding Cost Control to the Agile Toolkit, Tamara Sulaiman, Solutions IQ
- Improving project forecast accuracy by integrating Earned Value Management with Exponential Smoothing and Reference Class Forecasting, Jordy Batselier and Mario Vanhoucke,?International Journal of Project Management?35, 28-43, 2017
- On Your Toes: Measuring Earned in an Agile World
- Agile Development and EVMS, Joe Sweeny, DCMA, September 22, 2015.
- Agile and Evm for the DoD: a Review of the Challanges and a New Approach to Solve them, Roberta Winterowd, Regis University, April 2013.
- Beyond backlogs and burndowns - complementing "agile" methods with EVM for improved project performance," Bijan Nikraven and James B. Forman,?Scheduling, Requirements Management, Agile, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, SCRUM, 12 October 2010, PMI.
- Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment - Measuring Velocity with Earned Value, Glen Alleman, Michael Henderson, and Ray Seggelke, 2003 Agile Development Conference, 25-28 June 2003, Salt Lake City, UT.
- Measuring Integrated Progress on Agile Software Development Projects, Tamara Sulaman.
- EVMS DOD Documents: Agile and EVM: A Program Manager's Desk Guide
- An Industry Practice Guide for Agile on Earned Value Management Programs, NDIA Mat 26, 2019
- On Your Toes: Measuring Earned Value in an Agile World, CGI, Deltek, and BDO
