SEI Agile Research Forum Meeting the Challenges of Large-Scale Systems
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Free, on-demand webinar with presenters from the DoD and the SEI
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About this Webinar
In this series of webinars, experts from the DoD and the SEI discuss considerations involved when Agile approaches confront the challenges of complexity, exacting regulations, and schedule pressures in the large-scale development environments found in government and many industries.
In this webinar event, you will learn
- how a developer of large systems views the changes it needs
to make to adopt Agile methods - ways to resolve conflicts between traditional acquisition
and Agile development approaches - how to use technical debt to advantage
- how to infuse Agile with discipline, without overloading it
Featured Speaker
“Agile is a way for us to be able to, in small parts, mitigate our risks, make the changes that we need after a small, incremental delivery,
and then be able to build on that to get to the next stages of our delivery.”
Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer CIO,
US Department of Defense (DoD)
SEI Research Presenters
Mary Ann Lapham, Senior Researcher,
SEI Acquisition Support Program
Agile Methods: Tools, Techniques, and Practices
for the DoD Community
As a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI, Mary Ann Lapham supports and improves the acquisition of software-reliant systems. She has worked with DoD Program Offices to advise on software issues at the system and/or segment level.
Ipek Ozkaya, Senior Researcher,
SEI Research, Technology, and System Solutions Program
Strategic Management of Architectural Technical Debt
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A senior member of the SEI technical staff, Ipek Ozkaya is the co-organizer of the Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, co-creator of the Hard Choices board game, frequent presenter at academic and industry conferences, and author of several articles.
James Over, Manager, Team Software Process (TSP) Initiative
in the SEI Software Engineering Process Management Program
Agility and Discipline
James Over has led the transition of the TSP into government and industry organizations throughout the world. He co-authored the book Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust (with the late Watts Humphrey) and several SEI publications on software process definition and improvement.
Douglas Schmidt, SEI Visiting Scientist and Associate Chair, of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at Vanderbilt University
The Importance of Applying Agile Technologies to Key DoD Software Initiatives
Blog
A former Chief Technology Officer for the SEI, Douglas Schmidt is now and SEI visiting scientist. He guides the SEI blog series that reports on new developments in software engineering research. He is also a tenured professor and associate chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University.
As the DoD CIO, Teri Takai serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Information Management/Information Technology and Information Assurance as well as non-intelligence Space systems, critical satellite communications, navigation, and timing programs, spectrum and telecommunications.