A Culture Built on Moxie with Tracy Bannon

Building a culture starts with communication and a willingness to change. Tracy Bannon Senior Principal / Software Architect & DevOps Strategic Advisor at MITRE and ambassador for the DevOps Institute talks with Carolyn and Mark about her recent event #StraightTalk4Gov hosted by the DevOps Institute. Listen as Tracy outlines ways to create a culture of comfortability in the government technology workspace. For more resources and links mentioned in today's episode, please visit https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/culture-built-on-moxie (https://tech-transforms.captivate.fm/culture-built-on-moxie) Episode Table of Contents[01:11] A Straight Talk Featuring a Culture Built on Moxie [06:34] Acquisition in Government Is a Culture Built on Moxie [13:34] A Collaboration Between the Industry and the Government [20:17] A Common Theme in a Culture Built on Moxie [28:14] Sisyphus Moments Episode Links and Resources A Straight Talk Featuring a Culture Built on MoxieCarolyn: Our guest today, Tracy, is a returning guest. She's senior principal, software architect, and DevOps strategic advisor at MITRE. Tracy Bannon is just an all-around badass. She’s an ambassador for the DevOps Institute. We had her a few weeks ago, we talked a little bit about a conference that was her brainchild. She facilitated it. https://www.continuouslearningevents.com/ (Straight Talk), that's what we want to talk about today. Which, by the way, the conference is still on demand. You can rewatch these sessions that we're about to talk about. Tell us how it went overall, and what was some feedback that you've been getting from attendees? Tracy: Overall, it went very well. We didn't expect the spike in folks who registered for it. Even during special sessions, when folks saw the different sessions happening. We're getting real-time registrations happening and people joining. There's such a thirst for going beyond the technology. That's what this was all about, taking a step past the technology. Overall, it went very well. The feedback that