Want a More Innovative Agency? Encourage Employees to Experiment
How agency leaders can create a work environment that fosters innovation via creativity and experimentation.
Brian Fox
Brian Fox is Systems Development Branch Chief at the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Thinking About Going Agile? 5 Benefits Your Office Will Reap With Agile Methods
Five benefits of using agile methodologies that can help federal employees improve the quality of their work.
Thinking About Going Agile? Consider Mass Training to Facilitate the Change
How organizational instruction can help transform the processes and culture of your office.
Four Challenges of Adopting Team Structures (And How Leaders Can Mitigate Them)
If you’re considering “going agile,” one of the critical components of such a transformation will be adopting team structures. In your current, pre-teaming state, your developers are probably working by themselves, and may be engaging directly with stakeholders. Agile will place your developers into teams. Teaming is important, as it will enable your development staff
Improving Stakeholder Collaboration Can Improve Software Development Performance
It’s important for software development organizations to make it as easy as possible to enable improved stakeholder behavior. Development stakeholders can include business development representatives, product managers, and senior project managers, and they are typically carrying the weight of the organization’s mission. They are concerned about the organization’s goals, and are usually focused on ensuring