In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
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In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
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Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#2> IT is a highly skilled and trained job; staff it as such
He's going to be disappointed by the private sector too - I haven't been trained on or even given time to learn anything in at least 20 years. Any learning I (or anybody I've ever worked with) undertake is strictly on personal time only.
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#4> Chaillan added that DoD remains stuck in the outdated water-agile-fall acquisition processes...
Wait what?
Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#5> Living in Maryland, I've met several young people who put in a few years at the agency (including TAO) who then left for industry. Millenials don't care about a government pension, especially when you're in a windowless SCIF hacking Perl.
> The US Government as a whole has a massive talent retention problem. Only the mediocre will stay at NSA / CIA now and we'll probably see more of these leaks / hacks.
That's a verbatim comment I made on this site back in 2017 and it's still relevant. I don't mean to toot my own horn as much as to highlight the braindrain out of DoD / the alphabet soup agencies and into other sectors. It HAS and WILL CONTINUE to bite the United States in the ass.
Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#6> Chaillan added that DoD remains stuck in the outdated water-agile-fall acquisition processes... Wait what?
I can't speak for Chaillan, but as a military member who led an agile software development team similar to his during the same timeframe, I think he's referring to DoD's fondness for buzzwords.
Because "agile" is the new hotness, every DoD office and vendor tries to slap the language of agile onto a waterfall model. See this wonderful report from the Defense Innovation Board on "Detecting Agile BS": https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB...
Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#7> Chaillan added that DoD remains stuck in the outdated water-agile-fall acquisition processes... Wait what?
I read it as water-agile-fail at first. Made more sense.
I think most of my experience with "agile" has been: we'll make a vague plan that came from god-knows-where, you'll do lots of releases, testers will test incrementally, you'll update us once a week, and at the end we'll release it and you'll do it all again when the users tell us they don't like it or (more likely) when management goes on a new whim.
It turned out making a huge plan at the start was a mistake. It also turned out that no one wanted to ask the users what they thought.
Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#8> Living in Maryland, I've met several young people who put in a few years at the agency (including TAO) who then left for industry. Millenials don't care about a government pension, especially when you're in a windowless SCIF hacking Perl. > The US Government as a whole has a massive talent retention problem. Only the mediocre will stay at NSA / CIA now and we'll probably see more of these leaks / hacks. That's a ve…
I like the all-caps yellling here, because it simulates someone talking in detail while the other person is not really willing to change no matter what you say.. so the volume increases .. it will ALSO BITE YOU when you treat intelligent people that way COMMANDER
Re: In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads over DoD’s technology culture, processes
#9Larger discussion here:
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#10"creation of an enterprisewide DevSecOps managed service featuring more than 800 hardened containers for software development"
An infosec manager/exec/director that made software solutions rather than a bunch of policy and powerpoint drivel?
AND he was in the federal government?
I can't believe it. My #1 complaint about practically all infosec orgs in large corporations is that they set policies and review barriers, but don't offer solutions.