Why Your Digital Engineering Effort Will Not Produce the Results You Think
You have read the books, purchased your tools, containerized your apps, moved to the cloud, and automated your development pipelines. Awesome! Surely you are going to knock this transformation out of the park! But that's not enough. There are several principles you need to consider. It is the combination of tools and technologies, people, and principles combined that make a digital engineering successful. Let’s discuss the principles for technical agility and how to apply a test-first mindset. These principles will help attendees build the foundation for successful digital engineering implementation. In this session, we will share discoveries about the importance of automation and digital engineering environments in the development of cyber-physical solutions.
Dr. Suzette Johnson serves Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector as a Northrop Grumman Fellow, Lean-Agile and Technical Fellow Emeritus. Suzette works across the organization and in concert with the divisions and business units to support programs and functions in the adoption and implementation of Lean-Agile principles, processes, and digital capabilities. As a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant Trainer, she has an interest and passion for driving Lean-Agile adoption to achieve business outcomes. As an Agile Transformation Lead with nearly 20 years’ experience, she has led large-scale Lean-Agile implementations from programs to enterprise level (90k+ employees, domestic and international). She has worked with more than 100 Northrop Grumman internal, Federal, and Department of Defense programs, domestically and international, supporting the adoption of Lean-Agile principles and has trained and coached more than 4,000 individuals from team to executive level.
Robin Yeman has expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP. She is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at Colorado State researching best practices to deliver complex safety critical solutions using Agile and DevSecOps. She provides mentoring, guidance, coaching support, and conducts training classes for engineering and management teams and customers on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile tools, process, and methodologies. She is also directly engaged and involved with DoD organizations in the Agile/DevOps initiatives including supporting updates to software acquisition policy in 2020 as well as program execution and program transitions to Agile development methodology. She has also led several efforts in Agile program execution and continues to lend her expertise on the development of Safety Critical Systems using Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile techniques and processes on management, schedule, cost, and technical performance.