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The Digital Services Playbook
Somewhere in the process it might be helpful to suggest that agile process workpapers and artifacts should collate into an articulated document as a proxy for work-in-process (and potentially thereafter)...
There's a saying that "writing software is cheap, maintaining it is expensive". When writing digital services, it's tempting to believe that there will come a time when they're "done". In...
"Project Manager: Government manager of the Agile process. Also sometimes called Product Owner." It would be wise to break out these two definitions. The roles are suitably different (and important)....
In the executive summary of the TechFAR document, paragraph 4 begins: > In every agency, there are multiple stakeholders who share in the responsibility for achieving successful results from their...
Much like the FAR, the PRA could benefit from agile tech oriented guidance. Specifically, the PRA is relevant to soliciting users for Play 1. It'd be great to see the...
Minimal Viable Product should be introduced earlier in the agile description section (rather than first showing up in the Q&A). The notion of building MVP key capability (over nice to...
For Play 6, the product owner (PO) from the government should have deep expertise in the business domain where the software is being built to operate. Often the government places...
" Even though Agile software development is a new practice to the Government, it dates back to the 1970s ..." Actually in Government related projects, dates back to the 1950's...
"Question: FAR 42.302 lists the contract administration functions [...snip...] When performing contract administration, agencies have noted challenges in committing staff to support Agile software development. Is Agile software development feasible...
Consider something similar to Amazon's play: "All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces" More reading here: http://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-success-internal-apis/