Seven tips on facilitating unplanned topics in meetings
Facilitating a workshop can feel like a daunting task. Here at 18F, we’ve identified seven tips to keep your workshop organized and flowing, despite unplanned scenarios. — via 18F
Project Management
Resources on Project Management
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How to Build an Analytics Strategy
A case study using Digital.gov as an example of how to assess, report, and take action using web analytics as part of an analytics strategy.
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Foundations of Agile, Part I
18F’s Alan Atlas and Alan Brouilette cover the fundamentals of Agile.
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Foundations of Agile, Part II
18F’s Alan Atlas and Alan Brouilette cover the fundamentals of Agile.
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18F De-risking Guides
The Federal Field Guide to De-risk Government Technology offers guidance to federal agencies on how to structure software development teams, …
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18F Guide to Product Management
Best practices on doing product management well
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Web Managers
Brings together government web content managers to create a better online experience for the public.
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Who’s your website manager?
The importance of HR and accountability to improving digital service delivery at federal agencies.
Understanding design in 10 questions
How the discipline of design can help your agency improve customer experience.
Digital governance at GSA
A peek into GSA’s internal processes for managing their websites and improving digital experience.
Bringing design in-house
What is design, who are designers, and how can they help your agency? Learn how to build a design team that can help your agency solve “wicked problems” and be more innovative.
Acquisition
Discovery BPA Evaluation Process: How to Operationalize this Practice
This guide provides acquisition professionals the steps and resources needed to operationalize the evaluation process developed for the Discovery BPA.
When legacy is used to define systems less than five years old, an agency can still encounter DevOps adoption challenges where you least expect them.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DevOps Community of Practice
2020
A Federal Guide to De-risk Government Technology Projects
A Federal Guide to De-risk Government Technology Projects—Written for cross-functional teams delivering IT services to their users, the Federal Field Guide to De-risk Government Technology offers guidance to federal agencies on how to structure software development teams, write contracts, and oversee agile software activities to reduce risks and improve outcomes for end-users. — via 18F
Lessons learned in the areas of people, processes, and tools from early efforts in the Air Force’s journey to a multi-cloud environment.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DevOps Community of Practice
2020
For those seeking ways to internally re-skill their workforce for digital transformation, a look at mythology reveals a recurring theme where those answering the call are involved in an iterative cycle of ‘leveling-up’, a theme that may help change-agents set conditions for successful retention and growth of organic digital talent.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DevOps Community of Practice
2020
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.
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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.
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
Part two of an introduction to Kanban and how to use it to model any flow-based process.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the 18F
2019
Part one of an introduction to Kanban and how to use it to model any flow-based process.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the 18F
2019
