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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Product and project management
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Program managers, IT acquisitions leads, and business-minded IT professionals will receive in-depth guidance to improve cloud efficiency, optimization, and effective cost controls.
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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
Presidential Innovation Fellows
How Serving in Government Made Me a Better Designer and Product Manager
Working in U.S. government sharpened all of my product skills. Here are four practices that techies in any sector can use to build empathetic, effective products.
User Experience
2020 Government UX Summit: July 28, 29, and 30
A remote event covering user experience (UX) methods, service design, and managing UX in the government.
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2020
An Introduction to cloud.gov for Product Managers
Essential information that government product managers should know about cloud.gov.
Transform Federal Business Operations: Join the RPA Community of Practice
Federal employees interested in robotic process automation should join the RPA Community of Practice as their agencies commence their RPA programs.
10x project teams will demonstrate their work to date and provide brief overviews of each project. We hope that these talks will highlight some of the most interesting work happening in government today and inspire others to submit ideas to 10x.
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2020
Highlights from the Air Force Materiel Command & 18F partnership and the importance of organizational structure, roles of the core team, and user outreach for military and government DevOps.
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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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We will define product management, discuss how it’s used in the government context through a case study, and arm listeners with practices to use and evangelize product thinking.
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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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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.
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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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
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Adopting the USWDS, One Step at a Time
The U.S. Web Design System is key to new website standards
