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September 7, 2023
How Federal Agencies Can Get the Most from Their Atlassian Tools
Atlassian offers a powerful suite of tools to manage software development, DevSecOps, data collection, workforce management, ITSM/ESM, data analytics, and more. Agencies often face challenges in configuring these tools to create the value they actually need for their organization.
There are…
August 24, 2023
The Most Important Civil Rights Leader You Haven’t Heard Of
In 2019, TCG adopted Marvin Caplan Park, a small greenspace a few blocks from TCG’s headquarters. This was part of our annual social cause that year to support state, local, and national parks. In 2023, TCGers voted to renew that commitment to…
July 27, 2023
Celebrating the Anniversary of the ADA
One of the most important pieces of Civil Rights legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, was signed into law on July 26, 1990. We want to honor the anniversary of that legislation by highlighting the work of Justin Dart Jr.,…
July 19, 2023
Changes to Atlassian Licensing Could Impact Service. Is Your Federal Agency Prepared?
By Brendan O’Meara, TCG Atlassian Capability Lead
Atlassian software provides the foundation for Agile project management, data collection, and knowledge sharing for many Federal agencies. On February 15, 2024, agencies will find themselves without critical Atlassian support for Jira, Confluence,…
July 12, 2023
Open-Source Supply Chain Security: Addressing a Key Challenge
By Robert Bruce, Deputy CTO
In January 2022, the developer behind two immensely popular open-source NPM packages — “colors” and “faker” — intentionally disrupted them, citing overwhelming workload. The ripple effects were felt far and wide, causing thousands of projects…
June 1, 2023
Leveling Up Lowers Big Truck Crashes
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that over twenty thousand people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the first half of 2022. Fatalities in crashes involving at least one large truck (gross vehicle weight rating of more…
May 15, 2023
Best Practices for Implementing PPBE Tools and Platforms
Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) processes in the Federal government are markedly different from the corporate performance management processes (CPM), which are standard in the private sector. Agencies’ varied organizational structures, reporting obligations, and legal requirements create unique challenges…
May 9, 2023
Trends from the 2023 RSA Security Conference
By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
The RSA 2023 Conference was a gala affair of security companies demonstrating their cutting-edge services. I saw four key trends to which Federal agencies should pay attention, if they aren’t already.
XDR: eXtended Detection and Response —…
April 27, 2023
Kanban Best Practices to Elevate Client Services
By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Agile Capability Lead
As Agile practitioners know, one of the more popular lean-workflow management methods is Kanban. Kanban helps visualize work, maximize efficiency, and improve continuously. Work is represented on Kanban boards, allowing users to optimize…
February 27, 2023
Zero Trust, NIST Recommendations, and Cloud Freedom
by Robert Buccigrossi
Recently (1/25/2023), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and National Security Agency released an advisory that warned of a “widespread cyber campaign involving the malicious use of legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software.” Targeting RMM software…