Getting Your Virtuous Insurgency Conference Presentation Submission Accepted
10 mn read In this post, I write about the goals of the Virtuous Insurgency Conference – DEF 202X, how important the CFS (call for sessions) process is,…
Digital Transformation Cannot Be Bought: 3 Essential Approaches to See the Path Ahead
7 mn read The First Way The First Way of DevOps (from the Phoenix Project and the DevOps Handbook, 2nd Edition) centers around the concept of “Systems Thinking,”…
Stop Creating your own Innovation Valley of Death and Blaming the Government for it.
4 mn read The Department of Defense (DoD) is facing a unique challenge as it seeks to modernize its capabilities and stay ahead of ever-evolving threats. To achieve…
Be Agressive or Be Patient?
2 mn read Being patient or being aggressive seems to be the dichotomy we have to figure out in our business journey. Dichotomy is defined as “a division…
Ballad of the Green Notebook
< 1 mn read (ahem) Oh, Federal Supply Service Green Notebook, How we adore thee, let us count the ways, In a world of tech and screens and digital…
Inherited Risk Controls
4 mn read What activity do you engage in on a regular basis that incurs the most risk? If you are like me, that activity would be driving…
3 Steps to Building a LinkedIn Network: The Community I Found
6 mn read Six months ago I did something crazy. I signed up for a twenty-four-week DevOps program that promised to change my life for the better. This…
The Freakin’ Software Acquisition Pathway is your Friend! USE IT!
3 mn read The Adaptive Acquisition Framework within the US Department of Defense exists so we can stop the madness with bad acquisitions efforts for modernizing our capabilities.…
Make the Tech Invisible
9 mn read You know what really grinds my gears? Excessive focus on what technical products are being adopted by organizations “transforming.” It is all a schtick and…
Risk Management Versus Prudence
3 mn read Risk registries confound me almost as much as heat maps. Brainstorming everything that could go wrong on a project or within a program could result…