Working Group F

Agenda
Working Groups

Working Group F
Automation and Augmentation in Agile Programs 

 

 Wednesday – February 26, 2025
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PT
The purpose of the working group is to create a forum where working group participants can share their experiences and raise their questions about leveraging automation and augmentation in Agile programs, and working group subject matter experts (SMEs) can facilitate a discussion to identify successful practices and challenges.

Proposed Format: The working group will use a variety of techniques to accomplish the objectives laid out in the purpose statement above.

• Discussion Panel (30 Minutes) – presentations on common opportunities and challenges

    •  Small Group Exercise (~1.5 Hours) – with pre-defined discussion topics, break the participants into small groups to identify challenges in increasing automation and augmentation for each topics
      • Topics include, but not limited to, incentive fee for agile  programs, agile requirements sell-off, continuous development and delivery, agile verification and validation, and agile program management
    • Facilitated “What If?” Scenario Discussions (~2 Hours) – follow up from the challenges discussed in the small group exercise, participants identify opportunities in increasing automation and augmentation for each topics
Lead Lori Gordon and Ron Birk, The Aerospace Corporation

Biography

 Dr. Supannika K. Mobasser is a Senior Project Leader at The Aerospace Corporation. Dr. Mobasser’ s research interest areas are; Agile and Lean Software Development, Expediting Systems Engineering, Software Process Improvement, Software Process Quality Assurance, and Software Metrics and Measurement. She is a certified Scrum Master, a certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Agilist, SAFe DevOps Practitioner, SAFe Government Practitioner, and SAFe Product Owner. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2010. Together with Dr. Barry Boehm, Dr.Jo Ann Lane, and Dr. Rich Turner, she published a book entitled “The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software”.