“… Daniel McCune, executive director of Application Management at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the ‘lift and shift’ model comes with some benefits. For example, he cited VA’s ability to rapidly implement telehealth during the pandemic for veterans thanks to the cloud. But drawbacks exist and as a result, the department began breaking things out into micro services. Leveraging APIs allows them to do a better cloud native kind of application, McCune said.
‘Second Gen for us is really containerization,’ he said. ‘Next Gen is containerizing it and then we really want to look at native cloud native applications and preferably in, like a low code, no code pass solution.’…”
“Likewise, McCune said VA has shifted its focus from project management to product management. Traditionally, the agency has focused on scope, schedule, and cost with a habit of ‘throwing the product over the wall between the dev team and the ops team’ which he said does not work well.
‘We’ve been working on a product line management transformation, which is really a cradle to grave support and accountability for products and applications. We build on our agile DevOps practices and really build one team that owns the entire lifecycle of product,’ McCune said. ‘We then grouped these products into product lines, and that allows us to, to really work directly with the customer on all the software that that they care about.’
“When asked if any playbooks exist which enable a more systematic approach to modernization efforts and development, Samuel said these were central to his team’s work. Everything they do should helping either internal GSA IT or the federal government as a whole, hence why their playbooks are available at www.Tech.GSA.gov…” Read the full article here.
Source: Containerization, strategy and culture all central to DevSecOps, say federal tech leaders – By Amelia Brust, March 1, 2022. Federal News Network.
