Software Engineering

Today’s update introduces a powerful toolkit of new features to help make creating useful, consistent digital services faster, simpler, and more fun.

These new API standards will make it easier for GSA staff to launch and maintain good APIs.

A 14-week sprint delivered digital tools that used federal open data to address Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

Seven teams created digital tools that help in finding experimental therapies for patients, and for clinical trials to recruit new patients.

How agency leaders can create a work environment that fosters innovation via creativity and experimentation.

A hybrid approach of waterfall and agile practices is helping the USGS make the transition to agile.

Five benefits of using agile methodologies that can help federal employees improve the quality of their work.

How organizational instruction can help transform the processes and culture of your office.

Effective January 18, 2018, the revised 508 standards modernize the federal government’s IT accessibility standards and bring us into alignment with governments around the world.

As chatbots have become more popular, some online sites will let you create a chatbot with little or no programming.

The Standards team hosted their first AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the public in August. Here’s a breakdown of the big topics discussed during the chat.

As custom software development becomes integral to accomplishing any program’s mission, many managers in government find themselves faced with handling the unfamiliar: overseeing the design and implementation of a digital product that is functional, user-friendly, and necessary for realizing your program’s mission.

This post was originally published by Code.gov on Medium. It’s been a year since the federal government published the Federal Source Code Policy, which created the foundation for Code.gov. In honor of the policy’s anniversary, we checked in with our users to learn more about them, their needs, and the challenges they face. Our users

This is part of an ongoing series highlighting the innovations and research happening at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Wounded warriors who dream of returning to playing hockey, climbing mountains or simply brushing their teeth with ease can look to 3-D printing innovations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to

When people think of government software, they often think of COBOL and PowerBuilder 5, with manual software deploys every three to six months on a fixed number of machines in a government-run data center. This perception is sometimes justified, but sometimes entirely wrong. Regardless, the perception makes many developers reluctant to work for the government