WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System (DEAMS) program held its annual in-person Planning Interval (PI) planning event from June 12-13, 2024, at the David H. Ponitz Convention Center on the campus of Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
Nearly 170 participants traveled from across the country to attend this Agile ceremony to focus on the near-term development of stories and features in support of achieving functionality deliverables for over 17,000 financial functional customers across the United States Air Force and Department of Defense.
During the event, attendees worked within their development and functional teams to map out work taskings across four sprint periods to help achieve the functional customers’ requirements and to analyze technical challenges related to a pending migration to a Cloud computing environment.
In 2021, the DEAMS Program Management Office (PMO) adopted the Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, to better align organizational and workflow patterns for implementing innovative software development practices at an enterprise scale. In addition to this activity, representatives from the PMO and Functional Management Office provided updates on program successes that occurred during the previous PI as well as challenges and concerns DEAMS will face in the next six to 12 months.
While these annual events are held in the Dayton, Ohio area, the DEAMS program will conduct hybrid PI planning events throughout the remainder of the year on 12 to 15-week cadences that subsequently release software to customers every three weeks but can do so sooner for on- demand and out-of-cycle functionalities for high-priority or emergency releases.
This was the second consecutive year for holding an in-person event after a three-year pause due to public gathering restrictions imposed during the 2020-2022 COVID-19 pandemic.