AGILE Development in Government Training Workshop III: Implementing and Managing Agile Development in Government: What Managers and Development Staff Need to Know

This event qualifies for .7 CEUs

This event qualifies for 7 CPEs

This event qualifies for 7 CLPs

Special Early Bird Registration Fee
$795 for Government

Special Early Bird Registration Fee
$895 for Industry

Overview of the Workshop:

Many federal agencies have begun adopting Agile principles and Lean methodologies with the goal of reducing risk and accelerating successful delivery of their IT investments. Across government departments and within their respective agencies, most efforts along this path of adoption include some of the guiding principles of Scrum. The maturity of these efforts varies widely from one agency to another, and even within the same agency among different offices or directorates. Additionally OMB is promoting the use of Agile development for government agencies.

AGILE Development in Government Training Workshop III: Implementing and Managing Agile Development in Government: What Managers and Staff Need to Know is designed to provide the attendees with practical insights into Agile Best Practices and the latest thinking on Lean principles that include the basic Scrum practices, and the latest in more advanced strategic thinking around Agile implementations. In addition, our participating government panelists will share with the attendees how they are making Agile delivery work within their agencies, including insights into some of the challenges they have successfully navigated and their approach to risk mitigation.

What You Will Learn:

An overview of the basic principles of Agile Development and Agile Project Management
What are some of the challenges to adopting Agile that our agency should be aware of?
We’ve already started down the path to Agile adoption. What are some of the commercial best practices that we could adopt in our government agency?
What should we know about selecting and interacting with Agile partners from industry
What kind of training should my government staff be looking at to best manage the government/vendor relationship on my Agile projects?

Why You Should Attend:

There are agencies that are saving millions of dollars on their IT investments by the successful adoption of Agile and Lean principles. Come hear how they’re doing it
Agile methodologies are easy to learn but difficult to apply. Hear from the agility experts and daily practitioners and tap into their insight based on real world experience
You’re hearing about Agile, Lean, Kanban, SAFe and other approaches. You need to know which methods are best applied in any given software development or process situation
OMB is promoting the use of modular development and Agile for Software Development programs.

Who Should Attend:

CIOs, CTOs, Federal IT experts
Contracting officers
Acquisition professionals
Agencies new to adopting Agile projects
Agencies that have already started to adopt Agile practices who want to move to the next level of agility
Program and project managers who need to know how their role may change as their agency begins implementing Agile Project Management techniques
Agile teams facing ongoing challenges to adoption
Chief Financial Officers and Staff
Inspector Generals and Staff

Format: Presentations and Panel Discussion

Speaker and Presenter Information

Guest Speakers: Awating Agency Approval

Instuctors:

Philippa Fewell

Managing Director, Enterprise Solutions

CC PACE

Phil has had a long-tenured, progressive consulting career leading to her current position as Managing Director of CC Pace’s Enterprise Solutions Group. Her practice focuses on application development services, training and coaching in Lean and Agile Methods.

Phil has over thirty years of experience managing and delivering complex financial and technology projects for both Fortune 500 companies and startups. She is an accomplished executive and hands-on manager, with demonstrated expertise in driving and supporting executive mandates to facilitate and enable business objectives. Phil has an exceptional track record of managing stakeholders at all organizational levels, with emphasis on establishing cultures of trust, and building high-performance teams.

She has practiced Agile Methods with development teams for the last thirteen years, is a certified Scrum Practitioner and regularly speaks on the topic of Agile benefits and practices. Phil is highly recognized for her in-depth knowledge and practical experience in Agile, bringing hands-on, real-world techniques to the teams she works with. Phil earned a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Business from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Lawrence Fitzpatrick

President,

Computech

Lawrence Fitzpatrick brings a 30-year track record of software delivery and transformational software management spanning academia, government, commercial software product development, and corporate IT. As a noted industry expert in IT application development and management, Lawrence leads Computech’s innovative application of commercial agile methods in bringing greater value at less cost to its Federal IT customers.

Previously Lawrence served as Senior VP of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During a time of significant change in the financial sector, he grew and ran an application development team of over 500 individuals and was accountable for the delivery of numerous key systems. As the VP of Open Text Software (OTEX), Lawrence led delivery of commercial software products. As CTO at Personal Library Software, Lawrence spearheaded the development of search technology ultimately purchased by America Online (AOL). Lawrence holds a Bachelors in Biology from Georgetown University and a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID