AGILE IN GOVERNMENT Mutual Adaptation Adapting agile to acquisition and acquisition to agile Scaling, Contracting, Governance, Measurement The purposes of this event are: develop better understanding of how agile software development methods can be fit within prescribed processes of government acqusition to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implications these have for evolving Government approac...

Purpose The conference will bring subject matter experts and other skilled practitioners of both Agile and Lean, and to discuss how DoD acquisition is rapidly migrating to new, innovative processes. Attendees will: Learn how agile development is being used in DoD and integrated within traditional acquisition processes like Earned Value Management Interact with experts in both Agile and Lean to understand how these approaches are converging Id...

UPDATE! Now One-Day Only, Wednesday, January 25 & Fee is waived for US government employees! Shared Services Across Government: accelerating secure information sharing through standards. “We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on ‘need to know.’ We now start from the imperative of ‘responsibility to share’…” - James R. Clapper, Dir...

This 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium will focus on the technology, standards and semantic interoperability required to drive DoD IT inefficiencies, move towards enterprise services which promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. This year the focus is on the necessity of semantic technology to achieve interoperable business operations t...