Robert Moore

Robert Moore started his agile journey in 2012, serving primarily government organizations, helping manage Agile and DevOps transformations.  Passionetely enjoys shaping adoption within traditional software development programs, and even more so "beyond IT", applying the same principles with knowledge workers and other non-IT applications.  Encourages clients to follow end-to-end approaches, starting the organizations where they are, defining and adopting Agile principles incrementally and iteratively.  Tailoring involves adapting to each organizations' evolving culture, desired outcomes, and state of readiness.  Changes extend from “concept to code”, starting with the earliest planning and pre-acquisition exercises, proceeding throughout the system development lifecycle, and followed to the very end when code and systems are taken out of service.  Holistic and cultural transitions across enterprises are accomplished by combining Lean and Agile practices, adopting a "shift left" and "just enough" approach to ensure appropriate oversight and governance, as often (and uniquely) required in highly regulated, government and compliance-driven organizations, are enabled with minimal friction and maximum effectiveness.  This approach to successful Agile adoption applied with industry leaders and first-adopters of Agile, including the first and only Federal agency to adopt Agile across 100% of its releases across the entire Information Technology portfolio (100+ mission systems).  Works to support organizational Agile aspects are inculcated enterprise-wide, flowing through policies, procurements, planning, coding, coding practices, standards, design, architecture, quality assurance, testing/automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines, coaching, training, and continuous improvement.  Projects and US government organizations experience results such as release cycle times plummeting over 90%, in one example from 6-12 months per single release (to Production) to multiple releases per week and per day in many cases - increasingly performed during normal business hours and with zero downtime.