MITRE/ATARC DevOps White Paper

Excerpt

DevOps topic areas:

• Scaling Agile
• Rugged/Secure DevOps
• Assessing DevOps
• Right Sizing Documentation for Developers and Decision Makers
• Acquisition Model for Agile

Key recommendations to Government:

• Agile organizations have a shared vision and definition of success that should be understood and agreed upon by all teams
• Test your application in simulated, but real-world environments such as cyber test ranges
• Conduct assessments both before you start a DevOps initiative and periodically afterwards
• Educate all stakeholders so that they understand that fundamental to Agile and DevOps is more rapid system change, complete stakeholder involvement, and high process and system state transparency which – if adhered to – can mean that teams operate with less documentation
• Develop a template for IT Acquisition professionals that includes a common language for Agile, defines roles and responsibilities, identifies key personnel, outlines an appropriate reporting structure for Agile, and provides sample contract language for Agile acquisition