Ep. 117 Putting Agile Software Development in Work Boots for the Federal Government

Thousands of books have been written about agile software development since the release of The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. 

It was a noble, but frustrating concept two decades ago.  They really did not have the tools to have informal teams combine to complete complicated software development projects. For example, if your team were in one building, you could meet daily and provide updates on agile topics like product backlog and continuous integration. 

This face-to-face approach hit a wall when team members were remote. 

Back in 2006, the founders of Bluescape saw the problem and started to develop technology that allowed professionals to accomplish the task of process management and workflow automation. 

In 2011, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)started releasing frameworks for assisting larger organizations deploy agile methodologies.  Bluescape works well with the principles of SAFe.

During the interview, Norm Literini describes how Bluescape provides a platform to allow software to be developed in a flexible manner.  It provides common operating tools to unite sectors, this can be in software, crisis response, of cross-functional planning.

Further, Bluescape is FedRAMP and IL4 / IL5 compliant so federal systems managers can rely on a system to produce software safely as well as effectively.

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