force will be smaller and leaner. But its great strength will be that it will be more agile, more flexible, ready to deploy quickly, innovative, and technologically advanced. That is the force for the Specifically, it aids acquisition professionals within program offices that are exploring a more flexible approach than the traditional defense acquisition framework to apply Agile principles effectively program, the process for managing requirements from a functional capability standpoint must also be flexible.22 Figure 13: Example of Requirements Documentation (Data Source: JCIDS Manual) 8.1.2 Aligning

finished product that is hard to change.  The advantages of the agility that can be gained through a flexible, changeable, custom system —a smooth rather than a lumpy EA, as we put it in the last chapter—are it ourselves, but have to get the vendor to change it.  Our IT Skills Asset also becomes less flexible when we acquire an off-the-shelf product, since we will have to employ people with skills in that

give IT powerful ways to manage uncertainty. By establishing short, robust feedback cycles and flexible decision-making processes, by creating options and grooming enterprise capabilities so that they