Product and project management

Agile Assessment Guide - Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation

Agile Assessment Guide: Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation—Agile is an approach to software development in which software is developed incrementally and is continuously evaluated for functionality, quality, and customer satisfaction. Agile can reduce the risks of funding a program that fails or produces outdated technology. This GAO guide released in September 2020 presents federal auditors and others with best practices to assess the adoption and use of Agile in federal agencies and elsewhere. It is available in two files: a 268-page PDF, and a 290-page PDF that is accessible.— via Government Accountability Office

Dec 29, 2020

In this webinar, we will discuss GSA’s incremental investment program, 10x, which is modeled after modern venture capital best practices and start up studios.

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Nico Papafil

Sarah Crane

Will Cahoe

Acquisition

Discovery BPA Evaluation Process: How to Operationalize this Practice

This guide provides acquisition professionals the steps and resources needed to operationalize the evaluation process developed for the Discovery BPA.

Ashley Owens

Bridget Fields

Michelle McNellis

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Rebecca Refoy

Oct 26, 2020

Product lessons from the front lines of COVID-19 civic tech response

Two Presidential Innovation Fellows share how we can build digital services quickly without compromising quality for the public in times of crisis.

Dr. Kaeli Yuen

Likhitha Patha

Oct 16, 2020

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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Brian Fox

Rayvn Manuel

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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Ron Williams

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

Sep 09, 2020

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.

Clarice Chan

Sep 08, 2020

A remote event covering user experience (UX) methods, service design, and managing UX in the government.

Andrew Do

Angela Y. Smithers

Anthony J Schulzetenberg

Brooke Dine

Caroline Kyungae Smith

Christy Hermansen

Jean Fox

Jo Dwyer

John Pull

Katherine B Nammacher

Margo Kabel

Maya Rhodan

Sarah Rigdon

An Introduction to cloud.gov for Product Managers

Essential information that government product managers should know about cloud.gov.

Kara Reinsel

Jul 21, 2020

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.

Jim Geoghegan

Jul 10, 2020

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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Alicia Rouault

Ben Judy

Gray Brooks

Mike Gintz

Mike Stern

Peter Rowland

Sarah Crane

Shaudi Hosseini

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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Major Taylor M. Wilson

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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Lt. Col. Theodore J. Erickson

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.

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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Brian Fox

Major Jeremy F. Thomas

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.

Alan Atlas

Bridget Fields

Mark Hopson

Michelle McNellis

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Apr 24, 2020

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.

Nina Bianchi

Apr 22, 2020

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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Kara Reinsel

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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Brian Fox

Product and project management

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Agile Assessment Guide - Best Practices for Agile Adoption and Implementation

Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 15 — 10x: Transforming Technology Through Agile Investments

Discovery BPA Evaluation Process: How to Operationalize this Practice

Product lessons from the front lines of COVID-19 civic tech response

A Fresh Start With DevOps - Maybe

Operating Cloud Services Efficiently with Business-Driven IT

A Federal Guide to De-risk Government Technology Projects

How Serving in Government Made Me a Better Designer and Product Manager

2020 Government UX Summit: July 28, 29, and 30

An Introduction to cloud.gov for Product Managers

Transform Federal Business Operations: Join the RPA Community of Practice

10x Project Lightning Talks: 2020

Air Force COOL and 18F: Partnership and Flight Operations Software Agile Lessons Learned

DevOps Lessons Learned from the Air Force’s Early Cloud Journey

You Are a Product Manager (Though You May Not Know It)

The Hero’s Journey for Re-Skilling Talent (And Other Digital Adventures)

Experimenting with the Micro-Purchase Threshold

Strengthen Your Organization’s Vision Through Collaboration

Cloud.gov for Product Managers

Why I Love My Agile Team!