Rapid Improvement Team (RIT) Initiative with GTN 21

Rapid Improvement Team (RIT) Initiative with GTN 21 - Lessons Learned from GTN 2

January 28, 2003 • Presentation

By

John Bedingfield (AFPEI/C2&CS), Dan Eickmeier (GTN 21 PM), Stewart Laing (GTN 21 PM), and John Laychus (DASD(C3I))

This presentation discusses the Rapid Improvement Team (RIT) and Evolutionary Acquisition Division Review (EADR) process and was delivered in January 2003.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Topic or Tag

Acquisition

Abstract

Rapid Improvement Team (RIT) and Evolutionary Acquisition Division Review (EADR) process. Outline the RIT initiative as an OSD-sponsored program to use evolutionary acquisition to get IT capabilities to the warfighter faster. RIT moved large software-intensive programs from "Oversight" to "Insight," transforming how we think about satisfying statutory and regulatory acquisition requirements without impacting or stalling programs that would provide sorely needed mission capabilities. GTN 21 is the first of the RIT programs to successfully pass an EADR that gives the equivalent of an MS B decision. The precedent-setting event discussed shifting the burden of proof of compliance from the program office "oversight" to the burden of review and facilitation on the part of the OSD and Service stakeholders' "insight."

Software Engineering Institute