Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run

More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: “Kessel Run has been able to push five applications to the classified network, Kroger said…. The project is currently working on a number of things, including how the Air Force plans air tasking orders, a document which tasks units to fly their aircraft, Kroger said. It’s also working on building a tool that automates mission reports, which have to be written for every mission that flies, Kroger said.”

Original source: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run

Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain

“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It currently saves the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person. It also aligns with USAF’s Air Operations Centre (AOC) capabilities via a continuous delivery software development pipeline to a hybrid cloud-based platform alongside the legacy AOC 10.1 system.”
Original source: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain

Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain

Link: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs

Overview of how Pivotal Labs does design.

Nina Mehta: “You have a buddy to basically share the mind space with and get immediate feedback. All of the benefits of pair programming are very similar from pair designing.”
Original source: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs

Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way – Automotive World

‘Hofmann commented that at the same time Volkswagen was establishing new workstyles which are being further developed. “Our IT experts in our labs in Berlin and Munich work the Silicon Valley way, we have brought the Valley to Volkswagen. Pivotal is supporting our experts with over 20 experts from San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado, and is training them in new software development methods. Our aim is to firmly anchor these skills and workstyles in the Group and in Germany. In the medium term, there will be more than 600 programmers, data scientists, design thinking experts and cloud architects working in our labs in Berlin, Munich and San Francisco”, Hofmann said.’
Original source: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way – Automotive World

Link: Curing Handoff-itis

“I feel like it is just making our products so much better and so much more usable and user friendly. Having that integration with design rather than some sort of a hand-off, just means we get something into user’s hands quicker.”
Original source: Curing Handoff-itis

Link: Code Complexity is a Design Problem

‘A lot of my fellow designers get frustrated when engineering doesn’t want to build their solutions. Worse yet, they’ve handed off design “specs” and left engineering to fend for themselves, only to be surprised later by how poorly their designs translated into code.’

So, designers and developers should work more closely together.
Original source: Code Complexity is a Design Problem

Link: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab

“One thing that was great to see was that cross-functional barriers went away” once the new lab was set in motion, Arghirescu said. “Innovation became an entity.” People in the lab were given the authority to make decisions. A commitment was made to agile development.
Original source: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab

Link: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab

Link: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry)

“A container registry is the repository for all your container images. Since your core business applications are packaged into containers (built out of container images), you must protect these images just as you would any other important enterprise IT system. That’s where the image registry comes into play.”
Original source: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry)