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Join our Chief Technologist John Janek as he interviews our Unicorns4DTG team about their participation in a recent AWS Public Sector GameDay event. Niroop Gonchikar, John Gilbert, Jay Merrifield, and Jing Wu recount an incredible experience before and during their nine million point game. Listen for great insights on the importance of diverse teams, diverse technical solutioning, and the critical...

May is Mental Health Awareness month, and we're pleased to cap it off with a DevCast Culture podcast discussing individual and team resilience within our tech community. Join Sherri Elliott, John Janek, Emma Antonios, and special guest Damien McCombs for a discussion on mental health and resilience.

At Dev Technology, our internship program is one of the highlights of the year. This year, we're kicking off our incoming internship season with a podcast with our interns from last year. Come join Adam D'Angelo, our internship team leads, and our 2021 interns for a discussion on what our 2021 interns experienced and the type of work they had the opportunity to collaborate on.

Collaborating together produces great solutions for government, and in this DevCast John Janek talks with Jeremy Wood (host of " The Geek Within "), Jeremiah Akinbohun, and Casey Acosta about the impact of the many opportunities for industry and government collaboration through the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) . If you're in GovTech, you won't want to mis...

Joyce Carr Schwab returns to discuss two Agile frameworks Dev Technology uses in our contract delivery for the federal market: Scrum and Kanban. She and John Janek discuss which is best in different situations, and how to focus on delivering value for your clients regardless of framework. Read her accompanying blog post at https://devtechnology.com/2021/12/choosing-the-best-agile-framework-to-do-t...

In this episode of DevCast, Sherri Elliott kicks off our DevCast Culture series by embarking on a conversation around ageism in honor of International Day of Older Persons (Oct. 1). Does the speed of technology make ageism worse in our industry? Does youth, or even youthful appearance have a negative cultural connotation in government? Join Sherri, Todd, Christi, John, and Monica for a conversatio...

Adam D'Angelo and John Janek welcome Joyce Carr Schwab back to discuss topics of interest to Dev Technology and our DevCast listeners. The first discussion comes from a study that found 30% of the federal government domains studied don’t meet standards for accessibility, and Joyce uses her knowledge as a certified 508 trusted tester to help explain why this is a problem. Next, a discussion about a...

Adam D'Angelo and John Janek welcome special guest Joyce Carr Schwab to talk all things Agile. They spend time discussing lame daily stand-ups and how to improve them, as well as an upcoming special feature series on Agile practices and techniques with Joyce at the helm.

In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness month, we decided to speak on the topic of Women of Color in Cybersecurity. Sherri Elliott, Senior Project Manager and Information System Security Officer joins John Janek as a guest host to interview Renata Spinks, Cyber Technology Officer (CTO), Senior Executive Service Member for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marine Forces Cyberspace Command.&nb...

Our team decided it was time to shake up everyone’s Zoom fatigue with a hackathon. One of the newest members of Dev Technology’s Technical Development Program took the lead for shaping this event. Jeremiah Akinbohun discuss the benefits of hosting a hackathon, and how it can be of value to more than just your technical team members.

This year, Dev Technology was prepared for a class of six interns as part our Internship Program. But then everything went remote, and we had to adjust. Our Intern Leadership Team was quick to make changes for a successful program. John and Adam bring our Intern Leadership Team and our class of interns on this episode of DevCast to hear directly from them on topics including: Key aspects of the pr...

John and Adam continue their discussion about cloud migration, this time focusing on discovery. If you are going to move an entire enterprise to the cloud, there is a lot to figure out. But what exactly does discovery entail? And how can discovery be used to identify quick wins to start migrating systems to the cloud immediately? They also discuss how an integrated procurement component can i...

The current pandemic has shown how important remote-first cloud approaches are for an organization. But tackling a cloud migration can be a daunting task. John and Adam discuss how to develop a strategy by breaking down the migration process to into quick wins so your organization can iterate and learn to achieve a better solution. They also discuss the importance of engaging users into the proces...

Adam and John are joined by special guest, John Bobosh of IQ solutions. John specializes in using data analytics for improving websites. John Bobosh discusses how data analytics can be used to improve the user experience of website and applications by using data to identify areas for improvement.

John and Adam are joined by special guest, Dr. David Bishop, to talk about agile transformations. Dr. Bishop is the founder of the company Agile Worx and recently published a book titled “Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage.” Topics discussed in this episode include: How Dr. Bishop developed his research-based approach over 10 years Customizing the agile process to mee...

John and Adam meet with Josh Powers, Dev Technology’s Technical Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Josh discusses the importance of a controlled vocabulary and how the government can make AI/ML a functional part of the customer experience and government service delivery. Contact John and Adam at devcasters@devtechnology.com with your questions for future episodes. Visit www....

COVID-19 poses many unique challenges to law enforcement agents and officers regarding their safety. Niroop Gonchikar discusses how touchless biometrics could potentially help improve agent and officer safety, and he discusses some of the challenges that still exist with this method of collecting fingerprints. Contact John and Adam at devcasters@devtechnology.com with your questions for future epi...

Adam and John continue to check in with our teams to see how the initial sudden shift to remote work went, and how the adjustment has been over the past month, and what we can learn from these experiences. Topics discussed include: The mental shift to expecting to see people on video calls, and the fun of having family members—and the occasional cat or parrot—drop into your meeting. Will we ever w...

John and Adam bring on special guest, Dr. Glenn Platt, to discuss gamification in the workplace, and specifically how to make remote work fun through gamification. Dr. Glenn Platt is the Chair of the Armstrong Interactive Media Studies Program at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, which is a globally ranked award-winning program. Contact John and Adam at devcasters@devtechnology.com with your questi...

We are checking in with one of our Project Managers, Terry Sherbondy, to hear about how his team is doing with the move to remote work 100% of the time. Terry’s team is experienced with working remotely, but they still have some challenges to consider for moving forward—like onboarding their summer intern and training users on new features. Terry, John, and Adam discuss How Terry and the team are...

The end of March marks the end of Women’s History Month, and to finish out the month, we are replaying an episode that we recorded last year about the history and future of women in IT. When the first programable digital computer in the United States was being developed in the 1940s, computer programing was largely considered “women’s work.” During the 50s and 60s, the number of coding jobs began...

Dev Technology moved to 100% remote work on March 16, with many teams starting prior to that date. Adam and John meet to talk about how teams are adjusting, what has been working, and what they wish we had done differently. Topics discussed include Life in general right now, society’s reaction, and supporting local businesses How Adam and John are adjusting to working from home with the entire fam...

Zach Lawrence, Dev Technology Senior IT System Administrator, joins Adam D’Angelo to talk about a preparing for the AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam as well as some of the unique considerations for development in the cloud environment. Zach and Adam discuss the following. AWS Solution Architect exam prep tips including the importance of understanding the vocabulary, using practice tests to pr...

Adam D’Angelo and Niroop Gonchikar get together to talk about the technology that drives face recognition, fingerprint readers, and more. Biometrics is enabling our digital lives in incredible ways, and there’s an important need to not only look at the technology, but its application and the framework around its use.  Contact John and Adam at devcasters@devtechnology.com with your questions f...

Join John Janek and Adam D’Angelo as they welcome special guest Becky Crane to talk about Agile in Government. With years of experience delivering mission critical products to government, Becky shares her observations, thoughts, and insights. Learn about what agile means in govtech on this week’s DevCast. Contact John and Adam at devcasters@devtechnology.com with your questions for future episodes...