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Agile Software Development (ASD)

The need for an agile approach to software development is prescient and imperative – that’s why KBR is already on top of it. KBR assembled a team of subject matter experts in each major acquisition functional area to help train customers on innovative and enhanced systems and processes available.

Why KBR? Benefits and differentiators:

Built academic portion of Acquisition Instructor Course (AQIC) through leveraging specialized acquisition skill sets
Provide lessons learned and best practices from decades in multiple program offices
Create unique phased-based scenario training to provide students with experience across all the acquisition life cycle phases
Ever-evolving curriculum development approach to rapidly accommodate customer requirement changes
Currently positioned to meet customer IOC instructional delivery date of July 2021

Why ASD? To gain a competitive edge:

“Some 75% of North American employers are using agile practices at least sometimes, up from 71% last year, according to a survey of more than 3,130 project managers by the Project Management Institute.”

– The Wall Street Journal, “Are You Agile Enough for Agile Management”

“Reorganizing around small self-managing teams — enhanced by agility methods like Scrum and LeSS — is emerging as the route to the organizational agility required to compete in the fast-changing business reality.”

– Harvard Business Review, “Planning Doesn’t Have to be the Enemy of Agile”

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

– Steve Jobs

“To gain and maintain a competitive edge, we must shift towards agile software development (short development cycles) and close integration with operators and developers.”

– Robert D. McMurry, Lieutenant General, Commander Air Force Materiel Command

“The Air Force's acquisition and test communities are united in providing effective capabilities to warfighters when and where they need them. Agile software development (ASD) is a framework for meeting this goal, but it requires a thoughtful development and test approach.”

– Devin Cate, SES, Director, Air Force Test and Evaluation, and William Roper, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force