SBIOI April 18 th Ryan Lemire, Executive Director Centered on Solutions

Who we are? Small Business Focused on Software Development and System Engineering Voted #1 Small Business to work at in South Carolina (2012) Prime Contractor on CASI MAC N D (5.4 managed contract)

What we do? Capabilities Software Dev & Information Technology Analytics System Engineering & Technical Support Built Themis for CDCA C5ISR Conference

The Problem Asking Questions At the C5ISR Conference Traditionally Used Microphones Can be intimidating Often become sales pulpit Thank you for taking my question...first let me tell you all about me and my company…BLAH BLAH BLAH…5 mins later… ”Where do you see your dept in 5 years”

Solutions? Needs to be anonymous Paper slips takes too long /hard to read handwriting Most people have smart phones... Any free apps out there? Twitter? #couldwork #backupplan

Commit! We had 2 weeks Really only had nights and weekends Geocent specializes in Agile/Scrum Dev Just need some volunteers!

Build it! BacklogDev CI Code repo Deploy Google Docs Java / EclipseGitHub Jenkins Apache Tomcat Test / Defects Followed Agile Concepts Used only what we needed Didn’t waste time talking about “True Agile” Leveraged Open Source tools Distributed team NOLA/Chas – used Skype to collaborate

Go Live! Deployed the final code at 0300 before the conference Capable of polling twitter Ran for 3 straight days 180 Questions Processed

Outcome Spawned a new virtual Org in Geocent Themis has been used at SBIOI, C5ISR, and AFCEA events for 2 years We had a lot of fun building it! Give your people the freedom to innovate!…success will follow

Geocent, LLC Ryan Lemire Lowcountry Innovation Center 1535 Hobby Street, Suite 103 North Charleston SC SPAWAR Prime Contract: CASI – N D-4850 SPAWAR Subcontracts: All kinds of pillars