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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" - Vince Lombardi


In any scaled agile environment, unified work management processes and project setup is key for understanding strengths and weaknesses across the enterprise and forming actionable improvement plans. The LACE works hard to We develop and define these standards while still supporting the flexibility that support both the needs of the enterprise and the self-organization principle that allows , allowing teams and programs the freedom flexibility to optimize workflows and reduce waste.


The LACE provides software development partners with best practices and guidelines for Jira Project Configuration and Issue Management Practices, encouraging all teams involved in all  digital product and service delivery teams to support the CCSQ's goal to measure what mattersmake decisions based on enterprise-wide data insights. These practices also provide programs and teams with advanced metrics that go beyond burn-down charts and the program predictability measure to provide insights into performance and behavioral trends, identifying improvement opportunities, and setting actionable key results.


CCSQ's digital product and service delivery standards provide new technology contractors both the understanding and the know-how to operate successfully in CCSQ's environment.

CCSQ Agility On-boarding Guide and Agile Playbook: 

The LACE supports individuals, teams, and programs with a playbook on agility practices in CCSQ, providing the history the practice standards with the Agility Playbook an Onboarding Guide, defining best practices CCSQ, and providing the history of our adoption of Agile, Scrum, Lean, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices. These documents provide In addition, the playbook provides context on stages of enterprise transformation, and it's characteristics, and where we are in agile transformation journey. In addition, the playbook provides detailed information on practice standards. project configuration, work item hygiene practices, and more, helping new organizations align the playbook, you can find:


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Practice Standards:

The LACE develops and defines practice standards and and behaviors that support scaled agility and provide enterprise-wide data insights.

Project Configuration

The LACE defined Jira configuration (coming soon) supports software development process while providing the flexibility to support the self-organization principle.

Issue Management Practices:

We identify industry best practices and develop and maintain expectation for optimal workflows, and how Features and User Stories are managed.

Enterprise Alignment:

Enterprise Practices and Standards create alignment with CCSQ and ISG's

strategic goals of developing enterprise metrics to identify global improvement opportunities

mission and strategic OKRs: Create an ecosystem that allows data analysis across all CCSQ systems and becoming a world class development organization.


View the CCSQ Agility Playbook or the CCSQ ADO Onboarding Guide

LACE On-boarding Training:

The LACE supports

Clarity on CCSQ's practice standards for incoming digital product and service delivery organizations

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supports enterprise goals and provides the operational frameworks that are used across CCSQ community. The LACE On-boarding

training. This training Identify training topics beneficial to teams and programs

The CCSQ LACE welcomes your feedback and invites you to submit your ideas and feature requests.

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Training takes a deeper look at the topics in the CCSQ Agile Playbook and the CCSQ Contractor Onboarding Guide, helping organizations new to the CCSQ community

understand agile operations, processes, and  best practices. Diving deep into getting the most from the JIRA project configuration aligned with the Guidelines for Lean and Agile Excellence, leveraging the Team and Program Enterprise Dashboards, and the many LACE support offerings, the LACE onboarding support services provide new technology contractors both the understanding and the know-how to operate successfully in the CCSQ's digital product and service delivery environment. To request onboarding training, use the "request support" on this page.

Real-time insight and feedback through Enterprise Dashboards:

The CCSQ Enterprise Dashboards are designed to lead teams and programs to insights on practices, behaviors, and operations. Through the use of Jira data, the LACE strives to provide Delivery Teams, Scrum Masters, RTEs, Federal Program leaders, and Center Leadership with the tools to ask better questions and get to the heart of systemic issues rapidly

The dashboards can be used to:

  • Provide product and service delivery teams with line-of-sight into delivery health with no data collection/analysis burden
  • Identify improvement opportunities within programs and teams across the enterprise
  • Pinpoint successful behaviors, practices, and techniques

    • be successful from the start.


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    ways the LACE can support you

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     and your journey in CCSQ and Lean Agile Excellence

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    Interested in collaborating with the LACE?

    Request via email or add an item to our backlog, and we will reach out to you today or tomorrow to better understand your request and needs

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