As the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) commander, you are told that intelligence has discovered that an adversary has unexpected capabilities. Therefore, you need to reprioritize capabilities. You inform the program manager (PM) for your advanced aircraft platform that the lower priority capability for the whiz-bang software for sensor fusion that was on the roadmap 18 months from now will need to become the top priority and be delivered in the next six months. But the next two priorities are still important and are needed as close to the original dates (three months and nine months out) as possible.
You need to know
- What options to provide the new capability and the next two priority capabilities (with reduced capability) can be provided without a change in staffing?
- How many more teams would need to be added to get the sensor-fusion software in the next six months and to stay on schedule for the other two capabilities? And what is the cost?
In this blog post, excerpted and adapted from a recently published white paper, we explore the decisions that PMs make and information they need to confidently make decisions like these with the help of data that is available from DevSecOps pipelines.
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