April 10th Speaker Meeting

RSVP
Aerospace & Rockwell by April 2nd

Agenda:
      5:15-5:30  Sign-in/Registration
      5:30-6:00  Networking/Refreshments
      6:00-6:15  Introductions
      6:15-6:30  WG Presentation
      6:30-7:30  Guest Speaker Presentation

Aerospace (Host Site) & Rockwell Collins (Irvine) reservations must close Monday noon the week before the meeting (2 April). We apologize for the inconvenience, but we must observe security procedures of our host sites. For remote venues and virtual attendance please RSVP by Monday noon the week of the meeting (9 April). Virtual Attendance instructions will be emailed the morning of the meeting.

             Non-Members: $10.

WHERE:  Host site: The Aerospace Corp., Bldg D8, Room 1010,  200 N. Aviation Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245;  POC: Deborah Cannon, (714) 477-3755 (mobile).  Refreshments will be provided at this site.

Remote Sites (potential):

Site	Coordinator	Contact Email
El Segundo: Aerospace (Host Site)	Deborah Cannon	deborah.a.cannon@aero.org
Azusa: Northrop Grumman Corp.(Employees)	Maria Alvarez	Maria.Alvarez@ngc.com
Goleta: Ricardo Control Point	Paul Stowell	paul.stowell@control-pt.com
Irvine: Rockwell Collins Inc.	Andrew Murrell	andrew.murrell@rockwellcollins.com
Redondo Beach: NGC R4 Sim Center CLOSED	Stephen Guine	Stephen.Guine@ngc.com
Woodland Hills: Dassault Systèmes	Mark TenEyck	Mark.TENEYCK@3ds.com

Webcast virtual site: Register as an individual virtual participant. 

ABSTRACT:  Phyllis Marbach was involved in establishing how projects using agile methods plan, measure and report their earned value at Boeing.  During the course of that work she acquired data from two projects and assisted the Government Accounting Office (GAO) with agile updates to the Scheduling and Cost Guides in 2015.  Although you may have heard that projects developed using agile cannot also use earned value management (EVM), this presentation will show how it can be done.
Projects using agile practices should have an identified period of performance. During that period of performance, releases are defined that have specific features or capabilities.  This is called a Roadmap.  Each release is planned during a release planning meeting where dependencies, critical path and float are defined.  Each of the features in the Roadmap should be planned into the integrated management schedule as a work package.  The detailed tasks of each feature are defined during the release planning and baselined when the work package is opened.  Percent complete reporting of that feature, the high value work product in development, can be used for the EVM measures.  So, even if a project is using agile practices they can apply EVM in reporting progress against their plans.

BIOGRAPHY:  Phyllis Marbach retired from The Boeing Company Defense Space and Security Division as a senior software engineer in 2016. Phyllis has over 35 years of experience in aerospace programs including satellite ground stations, chemical lasers, the International Space Station, and various propulsion systems. Phyllis was a Boeing Designated Expert in agile software development, software engineering and systems engineering. The past eight years in her role as an Agile Coach for Boeing, she coached commercial airplane, unmanned air systems, radio, avionics, and research programs. Currently she is a Scaled Agile Framework™ 4 Program Consultant and Immediate Past President of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Los Angeles chapter, the second largest chapter in the United States. Phyllis has a Master of Science degree in engineering from the University of California – Los Angeles.

Working Group Presentation:  TBD

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Aerospace & Rockwell by March 5th