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    "title" : "New Playbook Details What It’s Like to Work with 18F Delivery |Digital.gov",
    "description": "New Playbook Details What It’s Like to Work with 18F Delivery",
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    {"title" :"New Playbook Details What It\u0026#8217;s Like to Work with 18F Delivery","summary" : "If you or your agency have thought about working with 18F but are unsure of how we work with our partners, we have a new set of guidelines to help you out. The 18F Delivery Partner Playbook is specifically targeted at federal offices interested in working with 18F to build digital services. The playbook is","date" : "2015-11-20T01:00:26-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"will-slack" : "Will Slack"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/11/2015-11-20-new-playbook-details-what-its-like-to-work-with-18f-delivery.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/11/2015-11-20-new-playbook-details-what-its-like-to-work-with-18f-delivery.md","slug" : "new-playbook-details-what-its-like-to-work-with-18f-delivery","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/11/20/new-playbook-details-what-its-like-to-work-with-18f-delivery/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eIf you or your agency have thought about working with 18F but are unsure of how we work with our partners, we have a new set of guidelines to help you out. The \u003ca href=\"https://pages.18f.gov/partnership-playbook/\"\u003e18F Delivery Partner Playbook\u003c/a\u003e is specifically targeted at federal offices interested in working with 18F to build digital services. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/11/600-x-427-Football-Strategy-And-Whistle-On-Digital-Tablet-AndreyPopov-iStock-Thinkstock-473149168.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A whistle lays on top of a digital tablet that is displaying a football strategy play.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe playbook is based both on our project experience to date and common questions that come up during our business development process. It lays out the plays and techniques that we’ve found make for a successful collaboration between us and our partners. We hope that naming our aspirations can help better align expectations about how we’ll work together. Many of the principles below build on specific plays in the \u003ca href=\"https://playbook.cio.gov/\"\u003eU.S. Digital Services Playbook\u003c/a\u003e, which some 18F staffers assisted in authoring.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https://pages.18f.gov/partnership-playbook/\"\u003eeight plays in this playbook\u003c/a\u003e are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe build in the open.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe work with an empowered product owner.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe focus on understanding the problem first.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe work in an agile way.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe use user-centered research and design methods.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe may revisit the project at a high level if there is a major change in project goals.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe transfer projects back to your team for ongoing support.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe deploy projects using best practice back-end methods and technology.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder each point, you’ll see explanatory information, specifics on what the play means for our shared work, and how to know if you are ready to execute the play.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard\"\u003eour work\u003c/a\u003e goes on, we will continue to iterate this playbook and other guides to memorialize the lessons we learn. If you don’t feel prepared to work in the ways described, \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/consulting/\"\u003e18F Consulting\u003c/a\u003e may be able to help introduce some of the playbook’s ideas through tools like \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/11/a-story-of-an-agile-workshop/\"\u003eagile\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/08/31/how-playing-with-legos-taught-executives-agile/\"\u003eworkshops\u003c/a\u003e. Please let us know how the playbook can be improved by \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/18F/partnership-playbook/issues\"\u003eopening an issue\u003c/a\u003e. And if this sounds like the way you like to work, get in touch via \u003ca href=\"mailto:inquiries18f@gsa.gov\"\u003eemail\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/blog/\"\u003e18Fblog\u003c/a\u003e by Will Slack, 18F team member.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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