Category: Agile Application & Web Development
February 8, 2023
Sharpen the Agile Saw: 3 Simple Ways to Get Started
If projects are going as planned – steady, consistent sprint burndowns with quality, predictable deliverables – is it really necessary to sharpen the Agile saw? Yes. All blades dull eventually, and if you wait too long to care for essential…
November 10, 2021
Integrated DevSecOps with separate Federal Dev and Ops contractors? Yes, it can be done.
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
DevSecOps offers great potential for improving Federal IT practice by integrating development, security, and production performance as shared goals of a single IT team. The overall philosophy is that a unified team will naturally embrace practices that…
November 9, 2021
Will We Make the Sprint? Simulate it with Monte Carlo!
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Piquing My Interest – When I read the title “How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation”, I got really excited: Of course I would love to learn how to avoid project estimation! While the article…
July 29, 2021
Filling a Gap in Federal DevSecOps
Keeping your entire organization focused on security with one data visualization tool.
As shown by recent security breaches such as the Solarwinds hack and the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, effectively managing security vulnerabilities is important and difficult. But…
July 27, 2021
The Rise of “Simple” Kubernetes
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Canonical (the organization behind Ubuntu Linux) has just announced MicroK8s (Micro-Kubernetes). Why should we care?
Containers Can Make Deployment Easier — Well, speaking as a system administrator, setting up and managing machines is a pain, whether you do…
June 23, 2021
Agile certifications — what will take you to the next level?
By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Program Manager
Scrum Master certification is the most in-demand Agile certification on the marketplace, but it’s quickly becoming table stakes as Agile is expanding beyond IT and DevOps, according to Stephen Townsend, Director for Network Programs…
January 27, 2021
Strategies for Making Agile Process and Design Thinking Work Together
For many years, designers and developers have been debating the compatibility of user-centered design principles and Agile development processes. In 2018, one of the foremost experts on user centered design, Don Norman, said “the new Agile programming methods are very…
April 13, 2020
No, You Don’t Need Kubernetes for DevSecOps
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
If you google “DevSecOps”, you will find many references to deployment pipelines, and one of the most popular is from AWS (depicted in the diagram on the below). The pipeline involves many quickly evolving technologies such…
March 10, 2020
Faster OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanning
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
OpenVAS is a system vulnerability scanner that checks visible ports, services it can access for known exploits, and high level web threats (like cross-site script vulnerabilities and improper file access). The TCG Tech Team uses it to…
March 4, 2020
DevOps: a Top-Level View
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
There are myriad approaches, tools, and goals associated with the term “DevOps”. Inspired by a recent webinar I attended that presented a rather abstract view of DevOps, I went on a hunt for a concise synopsis of the term that covered both…