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    "title" : "Agile “Sprinting” to Digital Governance Recommendations |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Agile “Sprinting” to Digital Governance Recommendations","summary" : "To help agencies produce better decision-making across the organization about how to best spend resources on digital services and manage their data, the Digital Government Strategy tasked the Digital Services Advisory Group with “recommending guidelines on agency-wide governance structure for developing and","date" : "2012-08-12T15:51:19-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/cm-topics-button-component/content/news/2012/08/2012-08-12-agile-sprinting-to-digital-governance-recommendations.md","slug" : "agile-sprinting-to-digital-governance-recommendations","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2012/08/12/agile-sprinting-to-digital-governance-recommendations/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eTo help agencies produce better decision-making across the organization about how to best spend resources on digital services and manage their data, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government.html#intra-agency-governance\"\u003eDigital Government Strategy\u003c/a\u003e tasked the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government.html#digital-services-center\"\u003eDigital Services Advisory Group\u003c/a\u003e with “recommending guidelines on agency-wide governance structure for developing and delivering digital services and managing data.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/04/sprint-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of an Digital Services Innovation Center Agile Governance Sprint from August 2012.\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"\u003eA clear governance structure helps with digital service efficiency and quality of service. Agencies can use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/digitalgov/digital-services-governance-recommendations\"\u003edigital services governance recommendations\u003c/a\u003e to “establish an agency-wide governance structure for developing and delivering digital services” by November 23.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of its mission to promote cross-agency sharing of best practices in the delivery of digital services, the Digital Services Advisory Group worked with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cio.gov/\"\u003eFederal CIO Council\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/communities/web-content-managers/\" title=\"Web Content Managers Forum\"\u003eFederal Web Managers Council\u003c/a\u003e to develop recommendations on how agencies can\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003estand up effective digital services governance structures consistent with Milestone Action #4.2. Recognizing that governance is a means to an end, the recommendations highlight opportunity areas for agencies to deliver better services at a lower cost.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo support the Digital Services Advisory Group’s efforts, the Digital Services Innovation Center hosted a digital governance co-location project. This project is an ongoing experiment where we have applied agile software development processes to policy-making.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe used intensive, facilitated “agile sprints” to help agencies develop digital governance structures. The goals for these “sprints” as we began to call them were to:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAllow the participating agencies to get a jump start on their governance models\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbstract what was learned from these agencies’ governance model creation processes to inform the Digital Services Advisory Group’s governance recommendations\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShare this “agile sprint” model with other agencies to accelerate their digital governance model creation in order to meet the November 23rd milestone.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe government innovators who partook in this experiment were the U.S Departments of Education, Agriculture, Veteran’s Affairs and the General Services Administration. In the first sprint, which lasted a week, these agencies agreed to creating a digital governance model “minimal viable policy” or MVPs to workshop with their agencies before the second sprint.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring this sprint, the innovating agencies found themselves engaging in a rapid cycle of brainstorming,  presenting, getting and giving feedback on their outline digital governance model MVPs. Facilitators started to notice that agencies would “borrow” MVP elements they liked from other agencies in successive presentations. A \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix\"\u003eRACI chart\u003c/a\u003e for stakeholder mapping was perhaps the most “borrowed” element.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese agencies will continue to work on the digital governance sprint experiment over the next month to have their governance structures ready for the November 23rd deadline. We are interested in exploring how agencies might use this model for other areas of policy development.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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