“As federal agencies approach DevSecOps adoption in their organizations, IT leaders across the government are encouraging a variety of approaches to change the cultural mindset behind the transformation.
For the historically siloed Department of Veterans Affairs, developing a model to break down those silos and developing a strong communications line around the new Agile cultural mindset has been essential for change, VA Enterprise Program Management Office Acting Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel McCune said during GovernmentCIO Media & Research’s Disruptive DevSecOps event Wednesday.
‘Culture is the hardest problem to solve, and you’ve got to start early,’ McCune said. ‘We looked at two things: one is more of a functional model that got us out of that traditional pillar approach, and the other is really communication, and we had to establish kind of a drum beat early and often and consistently, just shape the culture, shape the narrative, shape the vocabulary.’…”
“[NASA Applications Associate CIO Shenandoah Speers] said. ‘We’ve adopted a framework called Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, or SAFe, and within that framework it has a training plan that is outlined, so we have been following that training plan, both in adoption of our Agile, as well as DevSecOps culture and the mindset.’
As the VA moved to product line management at the VA, McCune said his organization adopted training measures similar to SAFe, tailoring training for the VA’s own environment and emphasizing mentoring and coaching as critical to getting teams to work together with a new mindset…” Read the full article here.
Source: How to Promote Adoption of DevSecOps Culture – By Melissa Harris, May 19, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
