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Governments often use two anti-patterns when sustaining software: equating the first release with complete and how they manage the reduction of staff when a reduction in budget is appropriate. To address the latter anti-pattern, managers need to rethink how they approach spending their operations and maintenance budget.
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In the final part of our series on technical debt, we talk about ways to minimize accumulating bad or unnecessary technical debt in the first place.
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In the last post in this series, we talked about the potential consequences of having a lot of technical debt. Now, we’ll give you concrete steps to identify and then manage that technical debt so it doesn’t get out of hand.
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In part two of our series on technical debt, we define what technical debt is and how it can negatively impact your organization or project.
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We recently began our partnership with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on the GovConnect initiative, which helps agencies create a culture of excellence based on collaboration and teamwork.
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Technical debt is a financial metaphor that software developers use to talk to managers about the “hidden” costs associated with a system’s architecture and codebase. Over a series of upcoming posts, we’re going to explain what technical debt is, how to manage it, and some ways to prevent accumulating it.
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It has become a standard practice in the software industry to create a “code of conduct” for conferences and events. By creating our own Code of Conduct, we are defining the kind of environment we seek to create.
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The October Oopen source hack night was a huge success, both as a community event and for the positive impact on the Midas project.
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You can’t learn agile software development from a book any more than you can learn to perform a one-handed jump shot without repeatedly tossing a basketball in the hoop. You can read a book about the basic idea, you can read a book to get started, and you can read a book about refining your technique, but in the end you have to practice.
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18F invites designers and developers from inside and outside of government to join us for a flurry of coding and sketching. Midas is an open source project in active development by 18F, Health & Human Services (HHS) IDEA Lab and the State Department. A small cross-agency team, dedicated to launching this product to empower passionate civil servants and aspiring diplomats all over the world.
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