1. SPAWAR 1.6 Data Science Division The Agile Software Metric Data Collection Initiative GAO Agile Expert Meeting 05/04/17
Jeremiah Hayden
Data Science Lead (SPAWAR 1.6)
Omar Mahmoud
Data Science Support (Cask)

2. SPAWAR 1.6 Data Science Division
Established in 2015, the SPAWAR 1.6’s Data Science Division has spearheaded several large scale data science initiatives
Data Science Mission: Expand the resource network, data and techniques available to government cost estimators for the purposes of:
Providing Management Insight
Increasing the credibility and objectivity of government cost estimates
Project
Technology Utilized
Data Source
Summary
Ship Installation
R-Programming
Navy ERP
- Ship installation cost drivers by geolocation
Headcount Drivers
Tableau
- Produced multi-year data set of SPAWAR costs by Program, WBS, etc. Provides the ability to relate cost elements for sanity checking estimates
- Correlated external data (quantity of acquisition documents) with the costs (acquisition-related cost elements) from the dataset
Agile SW CDRL and In-Progress Reporting Tool
JIRA
Software Forge
MS Excel
Agile Metric Reports, SRDR, CDRL
- Created a database of five SPAWAR programs that used Agile software development philosophies
- Provided basis for source selection, established cost baselines, provided a framework for evaluating in-progress work
- Presented data collection at the Conference of Information Systems Technology in Arlington, VA

3. Agile Data Collection Collaboration
SPAWAR 1.6 Data Science Agile Data Collection Initiative
Coordinating with other SYSCOMs, Services, and Federal / DoD / State Agencies to collect and improve access to Agile software metric data
Establishing standard practices for capturing and analyzing data in immature areas to increase the credibility of cost estimates
Compiling, analyzing and making available large data sets for improving Lifecycle Cost, Independent Government Estimates, Source Selection processes
Benefits
Large central repository of sanitized Agile metric data for use by government estimators/agencies
Baseline Agile Project costs by using qualitative programmatic categories
Evaluating in-progress
reporting metrics
(cost/schedule/scope)
Input: Development Environment
Output: Database Metric Range for Initial Baseline Estimates
Agile SW Metric CDRL / Data Collection Template