The growing importance of quickly and affordably delivering software intensive systems requires programs to swiftly react to changing demands of the operational environment and has led to an increased focus on capability-based planning and iterative product development. Capability based planning and execution focuses on delivering the highest priority system features to the stakeholders as quickly and affordably as possible. To meet this demand, Program Managers need a planning and execution method that can quickly and efficiently react to changes across all levels of the program.
An Industry Practice Guide for Agile on Earned Value Management Programs May 26, 2019, Version 1.3, National Defense Industrial Association Integrated Program Management Division
This compendium addresses the notion that Agile and Earned Value Management or any other formal program planning and controls process are incompatible. This is not the case, nor has ever been the case. As explained in Larman's paper as the starting point for debunking this notion:
- Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History, Craig Larman, IEEE Computer Society, 2003
Supporting and expanding on this history can be found in the following materials used on the domain of Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS)
- Acquisition and Management Concerns for Agile Use in Government Series, a collection of six booklets describing aspects of Agile use in government
- Agile Lifecycle Process Model, MITRE Corporation.
- Agile Software Teams: How They Engage with Systems Engineering on DoD Acquisition Programs, CMU/SEI-2014-TN-013
- Defense Agile Acquisition Guide: Tailoring DoD IT Acquisition Program Structures and Processes to Rapidly Deliver Capabilities, MITRE Corporation
- Agile and Earned Value Management: Program Managers's Desk Guide, David F. Tervonen, Deputy Director, Integrated Program Management, OUSD(A&S) AAP IPMD, 17 November 2020
- Agile Software Development in the Department of Defense Environment, The Defense Acquisition University
- Addressing the Barriers to Agile Development in DoD, Naval Postgraduate School's 2015 Defense Acquisition Research Symposium,
- An Industry Practice Guide for Agile on Earned Value Management Programs, May 26, 2019, Version 1.3
- Agile Management for Rapid Acquisition, Maureen T. Deane, ICEAA 2019 Professional Development and Training Workshop, 25 February 2019.
- Factors Influencing the Decision to Employ Agile Methods on Federal Information Technology Projects, Troy Mueller, Georgetown University, May 2014
- Critical Decision Factors for Agile on Federal Projects, Dr. Troy J. Mueller, The Mitre Corporation, November 2015.
- An Agile Framework to Develop Safety Critical Software for Aircraft, Duane Lee Bacon, Binghamton University, 2018
- Making Agile Development Processes fit for V-Style Certification Procedures, Sergio Bezzecchi, Paolo Crisafulli, Charlotte Pichot, Burkhart Wolff, 9th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Software and Systems (ERTS 2018), Jan 2018, Toulouse, France.
- ED-12C/DO-178C vs. Agile Manifesto - A solution to Agile Development of Certifiable Avionics Systems, John Marsden1, André Windisch, Rob Mayo, Jürgen Grossi, Julien Villermin, Louis Fabre, Claire Aventini, ERTS 2018, Jan 2018, Toulouse, France.
- Fundamentals of Agile Systems Engineering - Part 1, Rick Dove and Ralph LaBarge, INCOSE International Symposium 2014
- Fundamentals of Agile Systems Engineering - Part 2, Rick Dove and Ralph LaBarge, INCOSE International Symposium 2014
- Improving Software Systems by Flow Control Analysis, Piotr and Poznański Mariusz Wawrowski, Computer Science, 13, (2), 2012.
- Potential Use of Agile Methods in Selected DoD Acquisition: Requirements Development and Management, Dr. Kenneth E. Nidiffer, Suzzane M. Miller, and Dr. David Carney, Software Engineering Institute, April 2014.
- Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods, Larri Rosser, Raytheon Intelligence, INCOSE Enchantment Chapter, July 8, 2015
- Systems Engineering for Software Intensive Projects Using Agile Methods, Larri Rosser, Phyllis Marbach, Gundars Osvalds, and David Lempia,
- New EVM Constructs to Support Agile Development: Human Performance and EVMS, International Conference on Software Engineering. Research and Practice | SERP'16 |
- Agile EVM: Adding Cost Control to the Agile Toolkit, Tamara Sulaiman, Solutions IQ
- Improving project forecast accuracy by integrating Earned Value Management with Exponential Smoothing and Reference Class Forecasting, Jordy Batselier and Mario Vanhoucke, International Journal of Project Management 35, 28-43, 2017
- On Your Toes: Measuring Earned in an Agile World
- The Intersection of Agile and EVM, Deltek Webinar, Glen Alleman
- Agile Development and EVMS, Joe Sweeny, DCMA, September 22, 2015.
- AgileEVM - Earned Value Management in Scrum Projects, Tamara Sulaiman, Brent Barton, and Thomas Blackburn
- AgileEVM Iterative-Based DoD Software Development Project WBS, John Ayers, Project Risk Management
- Agile and Evm for the DoD: a Review of the Challanges and a New Approach to Solve them, Roberta Winterowd, Regis University, April 2013.
- Beyond backlogs and burndowns - complementing "agile" methods with EVM for improved project performance," Bijan Nikraven and James B. Forman, Scheduling, Requirements Management, Agile, Technical Skills, Earned Value Management, SCRUM, 12 October 2010, PMI.
- Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment - Measuring Velocity with Earned Value, Glen Alleman, Michael Henderson, and Ray Seggelke, 2003 Agile Development Conference, 25-28 June 2003, Salt Lake City, UT.
- Measuring Integrated Progress on Agile Software Development Projects, Tamara Sulaman.
- EVMS DOD Documents: Agile and EVM: A Program Manager's Desk Guide
- An Industry Practice Guide for Agile on Earned Value Management Programs, NDIA Mat 26, 2019
- On Your Toes: Measuring Earned Value in an Agile World, CGI, Deltek and BDO
