b'ViewpointsG. Edward DeSeve is a Visiting Fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He also is serving as Coordinator of the Agile Government Center being created by the National Academy of Public Administration where he is a Fellow. He previously served as a Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama for Recovery Implementation and Deputy Director for Management of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton.the World Bank by inspiring staff to rethink approaches toWhat are Agile Principles?work and to develop new soulutions for clients. The Agile Manifesto was developed in 2001 by a group of software developers who were frustrated by the paradigm Lets look at what Agile Principles are, how they are beinggoverning their industry at the time. These principles continue applied in corporations, in the military and in publicto guide projects and programs of software development policy development and implementation. Further, lets seetoday. Agile developers use scrums and sprints as what next steps might be taken to bring agile managementtechniques to produce products quickly that have a high techniques to governments around the world. degree of customer acceptance and satisfaction. What is Agile? Application of Agile PrinciplesIn software development, agile features small, cross- Denning gives us three laws for the application of agile functional, self-organizing teams that include customersmanagement principles. These are The Law of the Small working quickly to deliver solutions in increments thatTeam, The Law of the Customer, and the Law of the Network. immediately provide value. The development is customerHis prescription for each of these is:centric and networks are used for development andThe Law of Small Teams: In a VUCA (Violent, Uncertain, deployment. Complex, and Ambiguous) world, big and difficult WINTER 2019 / 2020 IBM Center for The Business of Government 83'