This Week's IDEA
Adopting the USWDS, One Step at a Time
The U.S. Web Design System is key to new website standards
Product and project management
News and Events on Product and project management
453 posts
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.
Watch Video
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.
Watch Video
2019
Part one of an introduction to Kanban and how to use it to model any flow-based process.
Watch Video
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.
Watch Video
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.
Watch Video
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.
Watch Video
2019
This is the first of two sessions that will explore the fundamentals of the Agile methodology.
Watch Video
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
Tori Garten will explore the multi-tiered challenge of understanding and governing federal digital policy in a complex and ever-changing digital world.
Watch Video
2019
Intro
Get Your Idea Funded Through 10x
Introducing a new investment fund for technology products in the federal government
You might not be as agile as you think you are
The mandate to be agile is everywhere. But agile isn’t an on-off switch. It’s a skill and a mindset that is developed over time, through dedicated work, open teams, and lots (and lots) of practice— via 18F
Join the U.S. Web Design System team as we talk through the recent update to 2.0
Watch Video
2019
Making tough content choices
Understanding your constraints is user-centered design Your ability to deliver user value is always constrained by, well, your ability to deliver user value.— via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
How Presidential Innovation Fellows and 18F Support One Another in Agencies
Two teams working together to help agencies become more effective at meeting the needs of citizens.
Journey Maps as Communication Tools
The team at Office of Natural Resources Revenue wrote about how they use journey mapping to help teams look at their agency’s processes in a more comprehensive way.— via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
