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Blog: The Slant

Avoiding the Project Pageant: Building Substance Over Spectacle in Federal Delivery

At Prodacity 2025, Paul Gaffney, Jonathan Mostowski, and Áine Nakai (with Riya Patel) shared how to move beyond project pageantry. Learn how federal teams can read the FAR for real flexibilities, build trust-based cultures, and measure success by mission impact—not theater.

Run GRC: Making Risk Real, Resilient, and Developer-Ready

At Prodacity 2025, Andrés Vega, Donnie Hasseltine, Chris Hughes, Mackenzie Wartenberger, Will Kline, and Brian Panarello redefined governance, risk, and compliance. Learn how they’re building systems that embed trust, automate compliance, and accelerate delivery.

Winning Culture: The Architecture of Aligned, Empowered Teams

How do you build a winning culture that actually works at scale? Insights from Matt Parker, Steven Spear, R. Brian Andrews reveal that culture isn’t fluff—it’s engineered through systems, trust, and learning.

Mission Command: Experimentation When Outcomes Are Critical

At Prodacity 2025, John Lowry, Ed Hoffman, Maj. Gen. Scott Brodeur, and Kim Crider explored how mission command thrives when outcomes are critical. Learn how they use clarity, trust, and structured experimentation to lead teams through uncertainty and deliver mission success.

U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command Selects Rise8 for FORGE Path to Production Contract

Rise8 to support monumental missile defense program streamlining development and delivery of mission-critical software

Practices, Platforms, and Love: The Human Side of Continuous Delivery

Edward Hieatt, DJ Angelini, and Lt. Col. David Williams share hard-earned lessons on making continuous delivery work for government teams. Go beyond tooling with insights on predictability, investment, incentives, and culture needed to deliver software users love.

The Rise8 Culture Manifesto

We answered the question, "What does it mean to be part of the Rise8 team?" by explaining the values and principles that allow us to advance our purpose of making the world work better with software. The smaller the gap between what we say here and what we do, the better we can achieve our mission of enabling large enterprises to continuously deliver valuable software users love.

Mapping the Mission and Technical Domain: Cutting Through Chaos with Clarity

Explore how federal leaders can cut through systemic chaos to drive transformation. Discover key takeaways from Prodacity on value stream mapping, clarity in modernization, and actionable systems thinking—featuring Karen Martin, Joe Szodfridt, Paul Contoveros, and Lt Col JJ Homan