“Now imagine instead of moving houses, you’re moving technology to the cloud. ‘It’s all about the cultural expectations, and how you tactically set it up for success,’ said Jamie Holcombe, chief information officer for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, during an ACT-IAC webinar Thursday. As leaders in the federal DevSecOps space shared their best practices Thursday, Allen Samuel, the General Services Administration’s director of Modernization and Innovation, echoed Holcombe’s comments and said IT folks need to keep perspective that new technology may not seem as exciting to others. As such, GSA has tried to keep old applications running while using APIs to bring out data and functionality in the new technology...” “For high speed application development, Samuel said a robust continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is key. It allows projects to better follow a ‘time to value’ metric that GSA uses to determine how long a business requirement will show value in the system...” “Aside from technology, Holcombe said being strategic about whether agencies are doing the right thing when it comes to DevSecOps is key. As an example, he said agencies should not be concerned with developing custom code when the entire commercial environment can be adapted. Keeping bespoke systems around for the long term is more difficult this way...” “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.