DAVE’S AGILE TIMELINE—A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO LEAN-AGILE THINKING 1987 - Work on Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) 2006 - Begin deep-dive into Agile doctoral dissertation 2013 - Assist Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) with Agile testing 2018 - Develop business case for Lean-SAFe thinking 1987 - Work on NASA's $250M CASE Initiative (SSE) 2006 - Apply Agile principles to DoD virtual casefile system 2013 - Give keynote for FRB Agile transformation 2018 - Introduce Agile Datawarehousing and BI to Firm 1987 - Delve into Structured Analysis System Specification 2006 - Present first public Agile briefing in Hawaii 2013 - Assist FRB CIO with Agile business case 2018 - Develop Agile briefing on Harvard SAFe project 1987 - Delve into Hatley-Pirbhai Real-Time Specification 2007 - Scott Ambler assists with large-scale Agile survey 2013 - Assist GAO with Agile transformation 2018 - Develop CMMI to SAFe compliance map and checklist 1987 - Delve into Object Oriented Design (OOD) 2007 - Jeff Sutherland (Scrum) assists with dissertation 2013 - Become a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist 2018 - Collect multiple DevOps surveys and assessments 1988 - Meet OO design gurus, Grady Booch/Jean Ichbiah 2007 - Present findings of Agile survey at ALN-DC 2013 - Assist British graduate student with Agile thesis 2018 - Give Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Keynote to CMS 1989 - Work on NASA's Space Station Freedom (SSF) 2007 - Publish preliminary Agile survey results in UK 2013 - Give fourteen Agile talks in 2013 2018 - Give SAFe for Healthcare talk at Agile-Lean Summit 1989 - Design Prototype GUI for NASA's Space Station 2007 - Complete Agile dissertation and present results 2014 - Shift focus to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 2018 - Give SAFe for Education talk to Virginia Tech 1989 - Take 240 hours of OO programming languages 2007 - Present Agile dissertation results in Hawaii 2015 - Begin focus on CI/CD/DevOps costs and benefits 2018 - Give SAFe tutorial to Quality Assurance Association 1990 - Start graduate work in Software Engineering 2008 - Mentor student on Agile Project Mgt dissertation 2014 - Give keynote to CRGT agile center of excellence 2018 - Help Firm capture $75 million SAFe contract 1990 - Study under OO software legend Charles McKay 2008 - Begin formal quantitative research into Agile ROI 2014 - Develop Agile CoQ principles for Quality Progress 2018 - Create a battery of Lean-Agile YouTube Videos 1990 - Work with NASA Space Shuttle Avionics Designers 2008 - Develop large database of Agile cost and benefit data 2014 - Publish lean project management book chapter 2018 - Help Firm win $200 million SAFe contract 1990 - Meet Shuttle designers Ted Keller and Kyle Rone 2008 - Develop agile cost and quality parametric models 2014 - Assist Capital One with Agile systems administration 2018 - Mentor student on Agile contracting dissertation 1990 - Take graduate courses from Shuttle legend Kyle Rone 2008 - Present findings of Agile ROI 2014 - Identify principles of DoD and government agility 2018 - Develop treatise on Agile contracting principles 1990 - Meet Code Inspection guru, Jeannie Clifton 2008 - Help ARC with Agile transformation 2014 - Give eleven Agile talks in 2014 2018 - Begin focus on Agile leadership principles 1991 - Exposed to Software-CMM Level 5 Shuttle team 2008 - Introduce Agile principles to DoD engineering dept. 2015 - Sharply focus to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 2018 - Continue deep-dive into Business agility principles 1991 - Work in NASA Space Station Quality Assurance (QA) 2008 - Publish Agile ROI findings in UK 2015 - Convert ROI website to Agile website 2018 - Document case study on CMS-Medicaid SAFe rollout 1991 - Learn About Japanese Software Factories 2008 - Become a Certified Scrummaster 2015 - Give Agile tutorials to software radio contractor 2018 - Get second two Business Agility Certifications 1991 - Meet Capability Maturity Model guru, Watts Humphrey 2008 - Design/conduct university Agile capstone course 2015 - Give Agile tutorials to Contractor DoD program 2018 - Develop Agile DoD cloud computing principles 1991 - Meet software engineering legend, David Lorge Parnas 2008 - Serve as Product Owner/Scrummaster on 3 teams 2015 - Introduce SAFe to DoD systems engineering dept. 2018 - Give Agile in government lecture to Georgetown 1992 - Invited to Work on Lockheed's F-22 Avionics team 2008 - Publish history of Agile methods as book chapter 2015 - Focus on Agile systems engineering/embedded sys. 2018 - Give forty-two Agile talks in 2018 1992 - Meet OOA legends, Steven Mellor and Sally Shlaer 2008 - Assist $20 billion DoD IT program with Agile metrics 2015 - Assist U.S. Courts with SAFe Transformation 2019 - Introduce SAFe Acquisition practices to ODNI 1992 - Take OO coding from British legend Colin Atkinson 2008 - Begin deep-dive into XP release management 2015 - Give Agile talks to ballistic missile defense project 2019 - Continue Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) deep-dive 1992 - Study IBM high-maturity SW-CMM Level 5 processes 2008 - Lead DoD Lean-agile enterprise initiative 2015 - Add focus on Agile performance measurement 2019 - Begin focus on Lean startup and Design sprints 1992 - Travel to Tokyo Japan to Tour Japanese Factories 2008 - Give four Agile talks in 2008 2015 - Develop Agile teamwork principles 2019 - Develop Lean-agile thinking leadership principles 1993 - Work in Japan's largest Japanese Software Factory 2009 - Publish Agile ROI textbook 2015 - Get first two Business Agility certifications 2019 - Collect state-of-the-art DevOps assessments 1994 - Tour Nippon Telephone & Telegraph's Software Factory 2009 - Help Contractor with DoD Agile transformation 2015 - Develop detailed AgileEVM tutorial 2019 - Develop library of lean, agile, and SAFe videos 1994 - Help Japanese become CMM Level 3/ISO 9001 Reg. 2009 - Mentor two students on agile-related dissertations 2015 - Design detailed model of Business agility principles 2019 - Begin deep-dive into Agile ALM tools and analytics 1995 - Modernize U.S. Air Force Static Radar Stealth Range 2009 - Present Agile education study at Agile 2009-Chicago 2015 - Give twenty-five Agile talks in 2015 2019 - Help large firm with its first SAFe rollout 1995 - Apply Shlaer/Mellor Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) 2009 - Give Agile ROI talk at Pentagon 2016 - Add focus on CI/CD/DevOps practices and ROI 2019 - Continue routine SAFe PI planning event rollouts 1995 - Study IBM high-maturity CMM Level 5 metrics/models 2009 - Learn of early Army software radio CI/CD case study 2016 - Add focus on Business Agility 2019 - Document careful case study on SAFe rollout 1996 - Develop advanced software inspection process models 2009 - Introduce CI/CD practices to DoD engineering dept. 2016 - Give first round of Business agility talks 2019 - Help Gov’t with a large-scale SAFe transformation 1996 - Work on Avionics manufacturing SW-CMM Initiative 2009 - Give sixteen Agile talks in 2009 2016 - Assist SSA with CI/CD/DevOps transformation 2019 - Become a Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer 1996 - Help DISA Contractor Become Software CMM Level 3 2010 - Begin focusing on Agile project management 2016 - Developing CI/CD/DevOps principles and practices 2019 - Develop Evolutionary Architecture/DevOps principles 1997 - Modernize 36 Military Logistics Depots w/rapid proto. 2010 - Adapt Don Reinertsen’s lean principles to APM/SAFe 2016 - Develop business case for CI/CD/DevOps practices 2019 - Give thirteen Lean, Agile, and DevOps talks in 2019 1997 - Conduct 10 Software CMM Level 3 Assessments 2010 - Begin exploring Agile project management scaling 2016 - Design Agile technology readiness assessment (TRA) 2020 - Become Certified SAFe 5.0 RTE, SA, SPC, AWS CCP 1997 - Support Navy Software Engineering Process Office 2010 - Introduce people to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 2016 - Give joint IEEE/INCOSE SAFe tutorial 2020 - Develop new Lean, DevOps, and Design briefs/videos 1997 - Work on DISA's Global Combat Support System 2010 - Give Agile project mgt. Keynote in Helsinki, Finland 2016 - Develop Agile collaboration principles 2020 - Helped large public sector agency with SAFe rollout 1997 - Meet Victor Basili of NASA Software Engineering Lab 2010 - Publish Agile acquisition/systems engineering article 2016 - Mentor student on SAFe for hardware dissertation 2020 - Deliver multiple remote SAFe certification courses 1998 - Support DARPA Advanced Information Technology Sys 2010 - Successfully apply Scrum to BD proposal responses 2016 - Mentor student on Agile cost-benefit dissertation 2020 - Helped large U.S. DoD agency with SAFe rollout 1998 - Design U.S. Navy F-18 Software Budgeting System 2010 - Give seventeen Agile talks in 2010 2016 - Add Monte Carlo simulations to Agile ROI database 2020 - Develop new Business Agility ROI brief/business case 1998 - Identify Software Process Improvement Cost-Benefits 2011 - Begin focusing on Agile virtual teams 2016 - Apply Confidence intervals to Agile estimating 2020 - Mentor Silicon Valley Digital Transformation Startup 1998 - Deliver SPI Cost-Benefit Keynote to IBM Gaithersburg 2011 - Lead multi-billion DoD cloud project team (Scrum) 2016 - Give twenty Agile talks in 2016 2020 - Develop agile HR and product management workshops 1998 - Help IBM Gaithersburg become Software CMM Level 5 2011 - Become a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) 2017 - Begin deep-dive into Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 2020 - Give sixteen Lean, Agile, and DevOps talks in 2020 1999 - Help GSA SDC become Software CMM Level 3 2011 - Study SAFe for APM, Acquisition, and Systems Eng. 2017