Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2018

In partnership with Pivotal Labs, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and Defense Innovation Unit Experiment (DIUx) are demonstrating that cloud-native cycle times can lead to astronomical impacts. Our implementation of PCF paired with the "Pivotal Way" decreased our initial release time from an average of five years down to 120 days! Additionally, as opposed to 1-2 year update cycles on minor releases, we have now achieved continuous delivery. In the case of our first application in production, doing business the old way would have resulted in a $391M cost of delay. Rather than focusing on Total Life Cycle Cost to make decisions, the proposal is to demonstrate the Cost of Delay to inform and guide.