Project Performance Management using Earned Value Management and systems-based development processes, including Agile Software development, have much in common. Most important is progress to plan measured by Physical Percent Complete with tangible evidence of working products at the end of the planned period of performance.
For Complex Systems, Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS), Agile Software Development provides the tool for producing working software on frequent intervals needed for customer feedback to assure the program is going in the right direction.
This collection of resources is the starting point for anyone interested in applying the principles, processes, and practices of managing complex system of systems, ranging from Construction to Agile software development of Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) all subject to FAR 34, DFARS 234, DOE G 413.3‒10A and their derivatives inside and outside the federal government.
For agile software development, this integration starts with EIA‒748‒C and the National Defense Industry Association Guide to Earned Value Management for Agile Projects: Industry Best Practice and Agile and Earned Value Management: A Program Manager’s Desk Guide, OUSD AT&L (PARCA), 3 March 2016.
Much more is needed for success of course. The framing assumptions of Agile must be integrated with the EVM principles. Transformation for the EVM paradigm to an Agile paradigm is a critical success factor. Understanding the details of how a Scrum Team works in the presence of EVM on a daily basis is the start be being truly Agile.
But most of all, knowing what it means to have an agile mindset will be the hardest part of the transition from 748‒C to using Agile to inform performance in 748‒C.
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Here's the resources to increase the probability of project success
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