Government Videos – SAFe For Government

#1 Treating SAFe as a Prescriptive Methodology

#2 Implementing SAFe in Name Only

#3 Focusing on Vanity Metrics

#4 Prioritizing Agile ceremony over technical excellence

#5 Accepting dependencies as immutable

Disrupting and Transforming Digital at IRS

What happens when an agency with a legacy of paper forms and an auditing mindset sets out to build a modern platform for taxpayer interaction? This presentation describes how IRS transformed to using the Scaled Agile Framework to approach the challenges of aligning an enterprise to deliver working software at scale.

Government @ Speed – How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (EPA)

This presentation highlights how EPA is using SAFe practices to modernize an application critical to engine and vehicle manufacturers. The goal was to reduce complexity and improve the interface, while creating better compliance data for EPA. The effort was a success and was delivered within 6 months!

Sprinting Around the Beltway – National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Struggling with how to implement agile in government? Key members NNSA G2 program shares 5 tips for thriving in a SAFe environment while operating within a risk-averse government agency. Learn how they have complied with rigid policies and survived transitioning from a small project to a major IT investment over the past decade while sustaining momentum and maintaining a culture of excellence.

Scaling to SAFe at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Witness a candid retrospective of NSF’s 3 year journey transforming the legacy waterfall process and culture into a unified release train utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework. Covers accomplishments, pitfalls, and lessons learned while expanding the NSF process from 1 agile team to an entire portfolio of applications using SAFe.

Lean-Agile and DevOps in Government

The Role of the Software Factory in Acquisition and Sustainment

SEI Director Dr. Paul Nielsen discusses his involvement with the 2018 Defense Science Board report that concluded that the software factory should be a key player in the acquisition and sustainment of software for defense. This video provides clarification on this recommendation as well as a general insights from the report.

Scaling to SAFe at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Witness a candid retrospective of NSF’s 3 year journey transforming the legacy waterfall process and culture into a unified release train utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework. Covers accomplishments, pitfalls, and lessons learned while expanding the NSF process from 1 agile team to an entire portfolio of applications using SAFe.

USAF’s Pawlikowski: DoD Use of Agile Software Development ‘Critical’

SEI Director Dr. Paul Nielsen discusses his involvement with the 2018 Defense Science Board report that concluded that the software factory sGen. Ellen Pawlikowski, USAF,  commander of US Air Force Materiel Command, (now retired), discusses agile software development’s criticality to the work of both the US Air Force and US Defense Department — especially in the face of rising weapons-systems software costs — and barriers to its implementation.

How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual

US Digital Service is transforming the way America delivers critical services to everyday people. The agency is using lessons learned by Silicon Valley and the private sector to improve services for veterans, immigrants, the disabled and others, creating a more awesome government along the way. “We don’t care about politics, we care about making government work better, because it’s the only one we’ve got.”

Kessel Run: A Digital Transformation Story within the World’s Largest Bureaucracy

There are few enterprises in the world that might find it tougher to become Agile and build software rapidly than a large Government organization such as the US Air Force. But that’s exactly the challenge Adam is solving through the Kessel Run project. Adam and the team are currently averaging about four months (124 days) to get a technology product from an idea on a whiteboard to operational – a task that normally would take 8 years.

Code. Deploy. Win.

Kessel Run revolutionizes the way the Air Force builds and delivers software capabilities by taking industry-proven software development practices and pairing them with talented Airmen. They disrupt decades of government bureaucracy with the mission to provide cutting-edge capabilities at a rapid pace to the warfighter.