ART 101
A virtual organization (typically 50-125 people) that plans, commits, develops, and deploys together.
What is the ART?
In our MACM world, the "Business" silo of the organization most closely aligns to this part of the VA org.
What is VHA (Telehealth or VA Mobile = Kathy Frisbee's org)?
In our MACM world, the "Product Management" role on our potential ART would be this person.
Who is Warren Thames (our COR)?
What is the PI Planning?
In our MACM world, the "Product Management" silo of the organization most closely aligns to this part of the VA org.
What is OI&T or part of VA org that our COR Warren Thames lives in?
In our MACM world, the "Customers" role on our potential ART would be these people.
Who are Veterans and Providers at the VA?
ARTs address this common problem with traditional Agile development with many teams that makes it extremely difficult to integrate the full system routinely.
What is teams working on the same solution operating independently and asynchronously?
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What is "THE TEAMS ARE ITERATING BUT THE SYSTEM ISN'T"?
In our MACM world, the "Operations" silo of the organization most closely aligns this group.
What is us - the MACM team?
In our MACM world, the "System Teams" and "Shared Services" roles on our potential ART would be this group.
Who is us - the MACM team?
These first three elements of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline work together to support the deployment of small batches of new functionality, which are released to meet market demands.
What are Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment?
In our MACM world, the "Software" silo of the organization most closely aligns to this group of teams.
What are the App development teams?
In our MACM world, the "Business Owners" role on our potential ART would be these people.
Who are the VA App team Product Managers?