TAKING AGILE ALL THE WAY
open dialogue and trust between the gov- ernment and the prime integrator, CACI International Inc.
MULTIPLE MEASURES OF LONG-TERM SUCCESS Te Agile Solution Factory introduced many objective performance measure- ments and analytic practices to provide RCAS leadership with the tools to assess factory performance, including:
Story-point analysis: A story point is an estimation metric that an agile develop- ment team (scrum team) uses to quickly assess the relative size, complexity and risk associated with a particular user story (or
requirement). Te higher the num-
ber of story points, the more difficult or complex the story will be to implement. In the story-point analysis covering 13 RCAS quarterly software releases over a 43-month period, the Agile Solution Fac- tory measured a 59 percent increase in productivity (defined as story points per release), while reducing costs by 51 per- cent (cost per story point implemented). (See Figure 1, Page 110.) Te Agile Solu- tion Factory accomplished this despite a simultaneous staff reduction of 14 per- cent, thus supporting the driving need to deliver more with less.
Release quality metric (RQM): Te RCAS Agile Solution Factory measures software quality by assessing the amount of defect-free story points delivered in a release. For instance, if a development team completes 100 story points’ worth of work, but one particular piece of func- tionality worth five points is shipped to the field with a defect, then the RQM reveals a 95 percent defect-free solution. RCAS delivered software releases that have averaged 99 percent defect-free functionality over a 46-month period. (See Figure 2, Page 111.)
SCRUM TIME WELL SPENT CACI’s Drew Lewis, application trainer, and EVM analyst Tania Hassan manage an ad hoc Agile scrum board to determine task priorities and status. (Photo by Chris Ham, CACI International Inc.)
THE INSIDE STORY Stephen Laurence of CACI International Inc., the RCAS prime integrator, is the Agile Solution Fac- tory’s lead methodologist. Here he leads a technical exchange of the Agile Solution Factory using story-point analysis. (Photo by Chris Ham, CACI International Inc.)
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