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What are modular procurement and agile development? Why are they often discussed with modular designs?

• Modular procurement: Breaking up large, monolithic procurements into smaller modules to reduce risk
• Agile development: An iterative method of making software that focuses on delivering valuable software to users early and often

The webinar discusses technological challenges that organizations face in providing a completely mobile experience to their workforces. It also demonstrates how user expectations impact and shape enterprise strategy and technology environments.

The Children’s Bureau (CB) is currently providing technical assistance and coaching to states interested in leveraging an Agile framework into their procurement, development, and management approach to child welfare development projects. LeadingAgile is the agency contracted with CB to provide this short term technical assistance to states who have interest in utilizing Agile methodologies.

Rafael López, ACYF commissioner, and other Federal personnel will discuss the advantages and opportunities provided through this new approach to how systems are procured. California staff will provide an overview of what is happening as they move forward with their IT modernization using this agile procurement approach.

This presentation provides an overview of web services, how they use different types of patterns, and their purpose in effectively exchanging data in real time between heterogeneous systems. The presentation introduces the concept of service-oriented architecture using web services and how these web services can be used to integrate diverse repositories of data as well as to create efficient solutions for sharing and accessing data across the enterprise.

In this presentation, the Children's Bureau hosted a state panel discussion on building and maintaining data exchanges between education and child welfare information systems. This discussion included a description and background of the data exchanges for Kentucky, New York, New York City, and Wisconsin. Topics discussed included data security and use, maintaining and enhancing the data exchange, and lessons learned.

This DSS presentation is the first in a two-part series on CCWIS cost allocation and the difference between CCWIS and non-CCWIS cost allocation.  It provides an overview of cost allocation and CCWIS Technical Bulletin #5.  The webinar also explains the CCWIS Automated Function Checklist and its use for cost allocation.

Our webinar, "From Waterfall to Agile: Managing Cultural Change and Impacts Across Stakeholder Groups," presents the experience of several states in implementing the Agile methodology and the various impacts on stakeholder groups.

This webinar provided a baseline understanding of Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) and Quality Assurance (QA) as methods for improving the quality of delivered systems and to identify and mitigate risks as early as possible.

This presentation highlights how data from the SACWIS is transformed into usable information by the West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families (BCF).