Read this excellent post of Jesse Fewelll, a leader of the PMI-Agile Community of Practice. In the article, he discusses a presentation by Don Johnson, entitled “IT Acquisition Centered on Agile Processes.”

In normal English, that means the United States is working on a law to reform procurement from the cold-war big-bang approach to an iterative incremental approach…Furthermore, the DSB has a relationship with the council of Federal CIOs, allowing the new procurement approach to be socialized among officials from all parts of the entire United States government.

Jesse identifies a team of 4 Agile Project Leadership network (APLN) DC [ link ] leaders working to create Agility in government procurement. There are some excellent materials on the APLN DC website, so go take a look!

I look forward to bringing samples of contracts that come out of this process! While the focus is on IT, it won’t take long before other procurement agencies and departments catch on.

Who are the legal, business and IT minds involved in drafting these agreements?

[Thanks to @MCottmeyer for RT @darylkulak ]