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Why Won't Anyone Use Our Pipeline? (ATARC Talk)

Waterfall processes lead to dysfunctional pipelines.

Posted on March 11, 2020 | 3 minutes | Mike Terhar

After attending the ATARC IRS Container Forum late last year, I was inspired to share some of my perspective. Between the folks who spoke at that forum and my own interactions with federal agencies, it was clear that waterfall was leaking into DevOps.

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Software Development vs FARs

Can federal software development be agile?

Posted on March 5, 2020 | 5 minutes | Mike Terhar

Agile software development has revolutionized the way private sector organizations build software. The primary tenets are that all companies are software companies, software is never done, and requirements always change. What does that mean for the federal space?

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