What healthcare innovators can learn from Department of Defense’s new software modernization strategy

The new Software Modernization Strategy calls for an enterprise approach to the services needed to build software. Its main goals include increasing migration to an enterprise cloud, establishing a departmentwide software factory ecosystem and transforming processes to enable faster and more resilient code deployment.

Weiss said a key enabler of achieving these goals will be a collaboration between the 29 software factories and creating “enterprise shared services.”

“Our ability to execute as a single team means we actually need to start sharing more,” he said.

How that sharing will work is still an unanswered question. Some collaboration will come down to the factories publishing reference designs, sharing tools they build and signing agreements like Platform One and Kessel Run recently did.