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When all is said and done, more is said then done. – Unknown

Savvy politicians and bureaucrats seem to always say the right thing, but they rarely back up their proclamations with effective action. In “Military’s focus on big systems is now killing us”, DARPA Director Arati Prabhaker states the patently obvious:

The Pentagon must break this monolithic, high-cost, slow-moving, inflexible approach that we have.

Well, duh! I’ve been hearing this rally cry from incoming and outgoing appointees for decades.

Yet another insightful DARPA director states:

 The services have largely failed to take advantage of an emerging “software-defined world.” The result has been skyrocketing weapons costs.

Say what? “Sofware-Defined World“? I must have missed the debut of this newly minted jargon. The “Internet Of Things” and its pithy acronym, IoT, must be so yesterday. The “Software-Defined World“, SDW, must be so today. W00t!!

If you read the article carefully, you’ll see that the interviewees have no clue on how to solve the grandiose cost/schedule/quality problems posed by the currently entrenched, docu-centric, waterfall (SRR, PDR, CDR, Fab, Test, Deploy) acquisition process and, especially, the hordes of civil servants whose livelihoods depend on the acquisition system remaining “as is“. But BD00 does know how to solve it: Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner training for all!