Tag: agile
April 27, 2023
Kanban Best Practices to Elevate Client Services
By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Agile Capability Lead
As Agile practitioners know, one of the more popular lean-workflow management methods is Kanban. Kanban helps visualize work, maximize efficiency, and improve continuously. Work is represented on Kanban boards, allowing users to optimize…
November 8, 2022
Rapid Prototyping in the Federal Sector: Finding the Right Solutions Faster
Natural disasters. Swings in financial markets. New cybersecurity threats. The world moves quickly but technological change in the Federal sector often does not.
Federal agencies need development methods that allow them to pivot quickly, explore new ideas with less investment,…
May 31, 2022
A Key Component to the Success of the Small Agency/IT Contractor Relationship: Cultural Understanding and Agility
Small agencies and bureaus manage billions of dollars and have missions integral to Federal government operations and services for the citizens of the United States. While Cabinet-level Departments often have tens of thousands of employees, the vital work done by…
November 10, 2021
Integrated DevSecOps with separate Federal Dev and Ops contractors? Yes, it can be done.
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
DevSecOps offers great potential for improving Federal IT practice by integrating development, security, and production performance as shared goals of a single IT team. The overall philosophy is that a unified team will naturally…
November 9, 2021
Will We Make the Sprint? Simulate it with Monte Carlo!
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Piquing My Interest – When I read the title “How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation“, I got really excited: Of course I would love to learn how to avoid…
July 29, 2021
Filling a Gap in Federal DevSecOps
Keeping your entire organization focused on security with one data visualization tool.
As shown by recent security breaches such as the Solarwinds hack and the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, effectively managing security vulnerabilities is important and difficult. But…
July 27, 2021
The Rise of “Simple” Kubernetes
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Canonical (the organization behind Ubuntu Linux) has just announced MicroK8s (Micro-Kubernetes). Why should we care?
Containers Can Make Deployment Easier – Well, speaking as a system administrator, setting up and managing machines is a…
June 23, 2021
Agile certifications – what will take you to the next level?
By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Program Manager
Scrum Master certification is the most in-demand Agile certification on the marketplace, but it’s quickly becoming table stakes as Agile is expanding beyond IT and DevOps, according to Stephen Townsend, Director for Network Programs…
January 27, 2021
Strategies for Making Agile Process and Design Thinking Work Together
For many years, designers and developers have been debating the compatibility of user-centered design principles and Agile development processes. In 2018, one of the foremost experts on user centered design, Don Norman, said “the new Agile programming methods are very…
April 13, 2020
No, You Don’t Need Kubernetes for DevSecOps
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
If you google “DevSecOps”, you will find many references to deployment pipelines, and one of the most popular is from AWS (depicted in the diagram on the below). The pipeline involves many quickly evolving technologies…