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> iteratively deliver working software to our customers using mature agile development practices with cross-functional teams consisting of developers, product owners, and scrum masters.

Something about this really makes me think its a mess internally

They call their dev team a “software factory”. If it wasn’t a mess, I would be astonished.

If there is an environment where agile practices may be useful, it is the battlefield. Time is of essence, full formal specs are impossible to obtain, each point of the Agile Manifesto [1] naturally applies. Most industries have comparatively less need of agile approaches.

[1]: https://agilemanifesto.org/

> full formal specs are impossible to obtain

That’s one thing any military has almost infinite supply of

For the hardware, yes.

For the conditions on the battlefield, sadly, no. "This cruise missile flies impeccably on our proving grounds" is good but not sufficient.

One of the reasons they run k8s on F-35 (yes, they do) is the ability to upgrade some software on a really short notice.

Wait, what? Every one of those fighter jets is running a k8s cluster?

I may mis-remember! I only can find confirmations for F-16 and U-2.

https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/usaf_u2_spyplane_kube...

Imagine getting a CrashLoopBackOff strapped to a fighter jet at Mach 2...

The term you're likely looking for is the Five Paragraph Order, commonly called a SMEAC as a pneumonic. It's quite a bit more tuned for warfare then Agile is.

The US Army refers to this as an operations order, OPORD, which uses the paragraph pneumonic SMESC.

Indeed. That sort of lingo is used at any company which is anything but agile from my own experience.

Commonly the classic agile cargo cult by following agile framework X on the surface but being deeply hierarchical in org structure and deeply waterfall in actual practices.

On the plus side, it's only Scrum, not SAFEe. ;)

It certainly does at least read as "elite delivery team" lingo bingo.

The whole unit is basically a thin Airforce wrapper to manage software developers from CACI and Chenega building stuff for USCYBERCOM.

The hex in their mission patch:

7375 636b 206c 6573 7321

"Suck less!"

“Shadows Edge” more like “Bad Font”

cringe larp

In real life the sophisticated cyber warfare consists of making posts on Reddit and other forums.

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