Acquisition
Experimenting with the Micro-Purchase Threshold
Through the use of an open-source procurement process, we created an experiment others can replicate to encourage Agile thinking.
Product and project management
News and Events on Product and project management
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How We Work
Strengthen Your Organization’s Vision Through Collaboration
Inclusive visioning helps accelerate successful outcomes. To help agencies innovate from within, bring people together to make big IT Modernization strategies come to fruition.
In this webinar, we will answer commonly asked questions about cloud.gov and explain how using cloud.gov enables development teams to deploy applications quickly and securely.
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2020
Join us as we meet with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) who is utilizing an agile approach to assist in further updating their topographical information and data.
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2020
Continuous Learning for Product Managers
As product managers, we never stop learning because products never stop evolving and changing. You need to quickly get up to speed on a product’s technical implementation, design, user research, and business needs.— via 18F
UX
Call for Participation: Government UX Summit 2020
We’re looking for speakers to share their experiences as UX practitioners in government.
Even with a design system, you still need a designer
The U.S. Web Design System gives flexibility to teams to build the right solution for users, but there are still plenty of design decisions that teams need to make to be successful. In short, you’ll still need a designer.— via 18F
This Week's IDEA
Adopting the USWDS, One Step at a Time
The U.S. Web Design System is key to new website standards
In this webinar, 10x project teams demonstrate their work to date and provide brief overviews of each project. Topics range from federating data to agile budgeting to machine learning, and our hope is that these talks will inspire others to submit ideas to 10x.
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2020
Long-term teams, not sudden handoffs
Don’t let your agency waste knowledge and opportunity. Instead of planning for a handoff to O&M, plan for a long-term team. Instead of launching and then keeping it running, plan for ongoing development.— via 18F
This Week's IDEA
Building the Elements That Earn Trust
This week, we’d like to talk about trust, and the elements that go into building trust with people who are using our services.
Part two of an introduction to Kanban and how to use it to model any flow-based process.
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2019
Part one of an introduction to Kanban and how to use it to model any flow-based process.
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2019
Scrum is the most widely used Agile software development methodology. This second session will go into more detail about what is happening during each of the Scrum ceremonies.
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2019
This Week's IDEA
Meet Your Federal Web Council
When something important needs to be coordinated across the federal web space, the Federal Web Council is the vehicle for getting it done.
Scrum is the most widely used Agile software development methodology. This session will cover the basics of Scrum at a very high level.
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2019
Part two of exploring the fundamentals of the Agile methodology will look at the external view of producing customer value and the difficulty of adopting Agile methods.
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2019
This is the first of two sessions that will explore the fundamentals of the Agile methodology.
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2019
This Week's IDEA
Let’s Talk 21st Century IDEA
We are starting a new blog post series on 21st Century IDEA that’ll break down one essential topic and point to guidance to start running with it.
Building Product Management Capacity in Government, part 1
18F is kicking off a new series on building product management capacity in government agencies that explores the process of helping people in government transition into product management roles through experiential learning.— via 18F
