BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3783271:Event:64502 DTSTAMP:20260410T042616Z SUMMARY:Why Agile is Hard for Government DESCRIPTION:New Meeting Date is WEDNESDAY May 2\r\nTHIS MEETING POSTPO NED from March 20\r\n\r\nThe topic dovetails nicely with the February 20th Meeting on\r\nFixed Price Agile Contracts, part of our IMPACTS an d OUTCOMES series.\r\nLarge entities like Governments and heavily Regu lated Industries like Pharma and Insurance must grapple with Vendors a nd Internal Overseers that prefer \"Fixing\" Price and Scope.\r\nBrian Campo from SABRE Systems will be presenting\r\n\"Why Agile is so har d for the government (and what we can do to help) \"\r\n\r\nAbstract:\ r\nMany government agencies struggle with Agile adoption for software systems. The reasons can be many but usually come down to a few fundam entals of how the government sets its long term objectives and how it performs its day to day operations. While much of the government is st ill trying to understand how to implement Agile programs successfully some groups want to do agile but lack support systems to do it correct ly. We’ll talk about how to help your customers get an Agile project off the ground including concepts for Agile Contracting, how the FAR (and TechFAR) provides guidance, and what an Agile SOW should focus on .  A very important point of implementing Agile within traditional go vernment contracting is understanding responsibility chains within the government and how external dependencies can cause even the best Agil e teams to struggle. We will cover how to spot customers misunderstand ings about Agile early in the project and the most important roles for implementing a successful agile project within a government setting. The final key for long term success of Agile projects is how to define metrics that align the project objectives with the team’s existing Agile metrics to provide the information stakeholders need to show suc cess throughout the project.\r\n\r\nJoin us as we dig into aligning Ag ile activities to organizational objectives and learn how you can work with your government customers and stakeholders to overcome these con straints and still be successful in developing software in an Agile wa y. Brian’s presentation shares insights and experiences on how we ca n work collaboratively with sponsors to drive business value that meet s more traditional program cycles.  The presentation closes with seve ral steps any team can take to make sure the organizations goals are a ligned with the team’s activities throughout the project, and resour ces for groups that want to get into Agile contracting. This presentat ion is meant to speak to both sides of the contracting field (governme nt sponsors and private contractors) and can help attendees start conv ersations in the real world about how to better align Agile delivery t o their program objectives.\r\n\r\nSlides at https://drive.google.com/ file/d/1kwouQXcmN8shTPEieOURb9OOfKD8R46P/view\r\nmore reading http://w ww.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-the-public-sector\r\n-============= ==================-\r\nMeeting Location\r\n865 Easton Road, Suite 300, \r\nWarrington, PA 18976\r\nA 12 minute drive from the PA Turnpike.\r\ nhttp://bit.ly/2CB9NIp\r\n\r\nDirections to Sabre Systems Headquarters are at the Direction s webpage\r\n\r\nPizza for the evening is provid ed by Grow-Lean\r\n\n\nFor more information visit https://agilephilly. ning.com/events/agile-for-government DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20180502T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20180502T203000 CATEGORIES:meeting, sabre, brian, campo, govt, government LOCATION:Warrington / Horsham WEBSITE:http://bit.ly/2CB9NIp URL:http://bit.ly/2CB9NIp CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Michael Moyer ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1678288018?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Deborah Wyse":https://agilephilly.ning.com/profile/DeborahWyse ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Patrick Connally":https://agilephilly.ning.com/profile/PatrickConnally ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Juanita J. 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