Innovation, Agile, and Acquisition: Is there a pony in there somewhere?Chris Gundersoncgunders@nps.eduChristopher.Gunderson@macefusion.com 831 224 5182www.macefusion.com

A successful innovation is an invention adopted.

A disruptive innovation changes the world.

Can we catalyze disruptive innovation?

Is Agile a reagent, or just the next PowerPoint miracle?

Compelling Need Coaches

and teachers

Expert Practitio

ners

Expert engineers

Try and try again

Fail early, often,

and cheap

Innovation

Process

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Janes & SucciACM Oct 19-26 2012

Agile Stuck in a Rut?

SOA

Cloud

Semantic Web?

Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) on VA Class SSN

IRS and the eFile ecosystem

FBI Sentinel project

Gov’t A/agile Success*

Here are the keys to Agile success, per GAO

Do your homework and be a leader

Get continuous feedback from stakeholders and customers

Empower small teams

Address security up front

Deliver value at the end of each iteration

Measure and track the right things visibly

*Big measured improvement in value delivered, per time, per cost

-Solution to Einstein’s Dilemma (Definition of Insanity) = Agile Metrics + Agile Contracting + Agile Security +Agile Certification + Sustained Customer Connection

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FCS?JTRS?NCES?JSF?

DefenseCloud?

So… Motivated govies can disrupt the broken status quo acquisition process through deliberate innovation, …and…Agile can help catalyze the change, …if and only if… We extend Agile discipline across the breadth of the problem space I.e., we must invent agile ways to

Stay in touch with the end user

Achieve and certify security

Incentivize industry to do the heavy lifting

Implement the new ideas with familiar boilerplate!!