Few organizations have or rely on as much software the US Air Force. There's plenty of it around and, thus, plenty to be improved. In recent years, one of the more spectacular digital transformation stories has come from the USAF's work modernizing their Air Operations Control software. In this episode, USAF's Bryon Kroger goes over how they've moved multi-year release cycles to just weeks in the Kessel Run projects. Much of the work is in the "fuzzy front" end of planning and procurement, but as Bryon says, an equally, hearty serving has to do with building up people's skills, moral, and the overall culture.
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Lots of SpringOne Tours coming up, here's some Coté will be at, plus some Bologna:
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Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte, $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis, $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
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Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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And, check out others in a city near you: 2019 SpringOne Tours.
News
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Steeltoe: Modernize .Net Apps for a Microservices Architecture.
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community, you keep using that word - and all the open source hoopla around monetization at the moment.
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New AWS database churns of feelings about OSS and cloud providers, also Ben Thompson.
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A Pivotal Director, RedMonk Analyst Discuss the State of Open Source in 2018 by The New Stack Analysts - Coté on a year-end podcast.
Interview
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Lauren Knausenberger & Bryon Kroger, US Air Force keynoting at SpringOne Platform 2018.
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Cost of Delay - How PCF Helped Demonstrate the DoD Can't Afford Business as Usual - Capt Bryon Kroger & Tory Galvin, United States Air Force, CF Summit 2018.
Bryon departing project the USAF later this year.
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