This lecture walks the participants through the crossover points of AGILE SCRUM to Observe Orient Decide Act (OODA), the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP), and the lean principles of Maneuver warfare.
The lecture provides the Agile practitioner, engaged in Federal DOD Agile organizational transformation, tools and touch points that will resonate with military decision makers. These tools and narratives are bridges to build trust and dialog. They are concrete starting points to engage in relevant conversations that lead to constructive outcomes.
The application of the content in this lecture is for a focused audience. However; the message is a fantastic way to show how the Agile Scrum processes are used in other areas. For the non Federal Agilest the outline of OODA and MDMP will be quite novel. For example the history of the OODA loop that formed during the birth of dog fighting in the Jet Age was the beginning of iterative refinement that led to what we know as SCRUM today.
Boyd’s OODA Loop Applied Relates human behavior
Goal: Successful interaction with other loops
Objective: Get inside the opposing OODA Loop
Outcome: Destructive: Air Combat, Warfare
Outcome: Constructive: Agile Software Engineering Process
When you’re doing OODA “loops” right, accuracy and speed improve together; they don’t trade off. A primary function of Agile “loops” is to build an organization that gets better and better at things.
Additionally this lecture shows numerous crossover examples of MDMP and Agile in general along with an overview of how Maneuver warfare is an adaptation of Lean principles.
The end goal is to how that Scrum, Agile, and Lean maps to Military methods. The focus of these process is to quickly develop a flexible, tactically sound, and fully integrated synchronized plans that increases the likelihood of mission success. This is the same within IT development.