Posts Tagged: agile

Finding New Efficiencies, Cost Savings and Improved Services with Cloud Technology

Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »

Govies Use Big Data to Predict Crime and Manage Spaceflight Imagery

Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »

Expansion of Mobility: The Perfect Storm for Government Agencies

Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »

New GovLoop Report: Government Technology Year in Review 2012

Today, technology is a critical component to transform and modernize government to truly create a 21st century government. For our year-end report, the GovLoop team set out to explore what technology trends shaped 2012 to help agencies meet organizational goals. The report also includes best practices, case studies, and identifies which trends will shape governmentRead… Read more »

7 Tips on Scaling Agile

Love this blog post from the gov.uk team on how to scale agile – it’s a great long article with practical tips based on using agile methodology to build gov.uk site Check out the full article but here are their top 7 tips: 1) Be agile with agile 2) Growing fast is hard 3) Don’tRead… Read more »

GAO Releases Report Providing Best Practices for Agile Development

Post Highlights GAO report identifies best practices for agile development Small iterations on IT projects can lead to savings and improved service delivery GAO report provides best practices and common challenges for agile development The hope of any IT investment by government is to improve the operational efficiency and performance to meet public demand. WithRead… Read more »

Agile Document Development: Part 2 of 2: Applying it to documents

The point of these posts: Agile methodologies used by software (and web) developers can be adapted to provide similar value to the rest of us. Not just for techies any more! Waterfall document development. I put it to you that document development in the OPS also tends to follow a waterfall methodology. (If “waterfall methodology”doesn’tRead… Read more »

Agile Document Development: Part 1 of 2: What is Agile?

The point of these posts: Agile methodologies used by software (and web) developers can be adapted to provide similar value to the rest of us. Not just for techies any more! Introduction This is a two part post. If you already know all about waterfall and agile development methodologies, feel free to skip this andRead… Read more »