Many Agile and DevOps texts focus on the software aspect and don’t delve into hardware systems development in a government contractor context. We have to deal with both of those, and they are not traditionally a good fit for Agile and DevOps. At Lockheed Martin, we need to understand where teams and organizations are along their journey, and tailor our coaching accordingly. The Overton Window
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window, a political concept that attempts to show how to identify successful political policy on a sliding scale of acceptability, is a great analogy to use to help determine what tools to use and approach to take.