Lifecycle Process Culture Change when Migrating to the Cloud

To leverage all of the scalability and tools that improve science and operations in the cloud and deliver more value to the NOAA user community, the culture of how the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) conducts business has been changing. To achieve maximum value for the products that NESDIS produces, the Office of Common Services (OCS) is leading the effort to deliver this value via the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). Further, agile and DevSecOps processes offer new ways to do business that will facilitate streamlined ways of working to deploy products and services. But, is implementing agile processes the best approach for all innovation and transition to operations projects within NESDIS? OCS has worked closely with all the stakeholders involved in the development, transition to operations, sustainment and operations processes within the cloud environment and is continually optimizing the algorithm development and research to operations transition processes to deliver more value to stakeholders. This presentation will discuss our approach in addressing culture change within NESDIS with regards to the lifecycle process, the status of work to date, and the opportunities for evolving NESDIS processes in the future.