The Agile Executive

Colleague and friend Annie Shum sent me the following excerpt from  U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra’s Friday keynote talk at the University of Maryland’s CIO Forum:

Questioned on whether service-oriented architecture still is an emphasis in a federal cloud computing paradigm, Kundra said SOA “absolutely” still matters. “Look at the Social Security Administration and what it’s done with SOA and local government,” he said. “They can build lightweight applications to interact with databases elsewhere.” That embrace of modern development practices extends beyond just SOA or upgrading programmers’ skills from COBOL. “How do we move towards an agile procurement or agile development methodology?” asked Kundra [highlighted by IG].

The {SOA –> agile procurement –> agile development} connection is intriguing. Obviously, Kundra gets the nature of the next revolution in productivity. My hunch would be that Business Service Management, particularly in its Agile BSM flavor, would soon be added to the mix.