ADMS Through the Years
Release Road Trip
PI Planning
Ceremonies & Commitments
One Program, Many Teams
100

In September 2020, this GE software version was installed on certain older DEC volume-environment servers.

What is GE version 3.10 SPI?

100

This term means the target point when the program is prepared for a production release and the applicable criteria have been satisified.

What is Solution Ready?

100

This application serves as the ADMS program's main system of record for team workload.

What is Jira?

100

This event establishes the program vision and planning context before teams finalize their PI Plans

What is the Program Vision and PI Planning Context meeting?

100

This type of ADMS resource performs work across jurisdictions rather than being assigned to only one.

What is Shared Services team member?

200

Older files dated June 2026 of this year were still found on Raleigh environment servers during a later infrastructure review

What is 2020?

200

This structured tracker brings criteria, owners, and readiness evidence together before a release is declared ready.

What is the Solution Readiness Tracker, or SRT?

200

These four levels form the ADMS program's Jira data structure.

What are Capabilities, Objectives, Epics, and Stories?

200

This workshop reviews unresolved alignment, risks, impediments, and dependencies before commitment.

What is the PI Problem-Solving Workshop?

200

This informal program principle says participants may leave a meeting after informing the facilitator if they do not see value in attending

What is the Law of Two Feet?

300

This release family appeared in Duke's newer DEC volume servers associated with the 2023 implementation.

What is ADMS 3.16?

300

This 2025 jurisdictional upgrade included detailed planning, analysis, design activity, leadership engagement, and storm-scenario workshops

What is the DEF ADMS upgrade?

300

ADMS planning follows this scaled framework on a quarterly Program Increment cadence.

What is SAFe, or Scaled Agile Framework?

300

This ceremony concludes the planning sequence and confirms the program's PI commitment.

What is the PI Commitment Ceremony?

300

In 2025, program meetings moved toward these views to ensure the appropriate participants and audiences were included.

What are focused jurisdictional views and/or meetings?

400

On April 23, 2024, the GE release history added this ADMS version.

What is ADMS 16.7.0?

400

Before a 2025 production decision, the team used two temporary cutovers, business and technical validations, critical-defect checks, rollback criteria, and a vote.

What is a go-live readiness process?

400

These four words describe the required information placed in program meeting invitations.

What are Purpose, Process, People, and Payoff?

400

At the program level, teams make commitments at this Jira work-item level rather than the story level

What is the Epic level?

400

This new 2025 function was established to create more structure around vendor relationships, partner performance, statements of work, invoice approvals, and milestone acceptance.

What is the Vendor Management Office or VMO?

500

These four successive ADMS versions were documented between September and November 2024

What are 16.11.0, 16.12.0, 16.13.0, and 16.14.0?

500

These two jurisdictions were aligned to the same ADMS 16.15 patch level during a 2025 production-upgrade discussion.

What are DEP and DEM (Midwest)?

500

This four-letter technique is used to disposition uncertainty as Resolved, Owned, Accepted, or Mitigated.

What is ROAM?

500

A PI commitment has these two parts: agreeing to do everything possible to meet the Epic and doing this immediately if delivery becomes jeopardized.

What is escalating so action(s) can be taken?

500

Name the sequence of the three program events that typically converts planning work into a formal PI commitment before Jira Data Health was added as a separate event.

What are Vision and Planning Context, Problem-Solving Workshop, and Commitment Ceremony?