In many agile project settings, agile leadership comes from the triad of the Agile Coach, Chief Product Owner, and Chief Scrum Masters. But in the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) community, this agile triad needs to share agile leadership with the Program Management Office (PMO). The A&D style of programs requires additional responsibilities and concerns for agile leadership teams, such as contractual concerns, scope management, risk and opportunity management, proposal development and other issues that arise from a government contract environment. The tensions and commonality between...
Ray Renner
Consulting Agile Coach
Northrop Grumman
Ray Renner is an Consulting Agile Coach and Technical Fellow Emeritus at Northrop Grumman Space Systems with over 30 years of experience in software engineering and systems development. His experience has covered all aspects of software and systems engineering, including architecture, requirements, design and development, software processes, and technical leadership. As Agile Coach for Northrop Grumman Space Systems where he is working to upskill Lean-Agile and Dev*Ops practices across Northrop Grumman. He is the Product Owner of Northrop Grumman Space Systems' Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) and is a certified trainer for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He has also been an adjunct professor at The George Washington University teaching graduate courses in Software Engineering and Software Architecture.