“The official leading the charge in bringing a DevOps framework to the Department of Veterans Affairs says training is key to the agency facilitating its overall digital modernization.”
“Training and workforce reform play critical roles in the agency’s broader IT transformation, said Director of DevOps Implementation Patty Craighill at the March 10 ATARC Federal DevOps Summit. This led to a particular focus on familiarizing VA employees with methodologies most conducive to product development…”
“One of the solutions Craighill implemented to foster wider DevOps adoption across the VA has been a process of training the agency’s workforce with the intent of empowering them to immediately begin using these new methodologies. This has been seen most prominently in the creation of mastery teams designed to quickly render knowledge into practice.”
“We’ve come up with the concept of ‘mastery teams,’ which is the idea that if you’re going to get training — particularly technical training — and don’t use it right away, it’s almost worthless. You forget, and it’s hard to go back and remember what you learned. So mastery teams embody the concept of going to training as a team, and then being to use what you learned in training right away,” she said.
“Similarly, the creation of change teams has been essential for smoothing the adoption of DevOps methodologies across the VA through reconciling institutional mandates with newer practices…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Sees Workforce Reforms Necessary for DevOps Adoption – By Adam Patterson, March 11, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
