YOUR GUIDE TO DEVOPS FOR GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DevOps has become a common term that often means different things to different people teams and agencies This is particularly true for the public sector which is only now beginning to adopt what were previously private sector tactics for streamlining operations and enhancing application development Now more than ever there is a solid case for the government to start using DevOps practices similar to the way commercial agencies use DevOps With a growing marketplace population and reliance on technology federal agencies must acquiesce to this new approach if it wants to produce relevant applications spend within budget and better serve the public In FY17 the federal government spent over 76B on Information IT projects However the vast majority of these projects have not produced the intended results wasting time energy and valuable tax dollars It's not the resources It s certainly not the funding It s the execution