What problem does it solve? Federal program managers, auditors, and acquisition staff need authoritative criteria to evaluate whether an Agile program is genuinely working, but the 204-page GAO Agile Assessment Guide is hard to recall mid-task. This Skill turns GAO-24-105506 into an on-demand knowledge base for assessing Agile adoption, contracting, monitoring, and metrics. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Adoption diagnostics: Evaluate Agile transitions across the three adoption perspectives (team dynamics, program operations, organization environment) and the 14 known federal adoption challenges. - Acquisition and oversight guidance: Apply Agile-aware federal contracting practices (FAR flexibility, modular contracting, SOO/PWS/SOW selection) and map WBS, cost, schedule, and EVM discipline onto epics, features, and user stories. - Auditor question bank: Use paired key-questions-and-effects, the framework catalog (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, DA, DSDM, Lean, DevOps), and the ten Agile myths to run structured assessments. - Use Case: An auditor reviewing a stalled federal Agile program asks for the product-owner key questions and gets the specific GAO probes plus the likely effects of each gap, with chapter references for deeper reading. ## Quick Start Ask the gao-agile skill how to apply earned value management at the feature level on an Agile federal program.
