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April 20, 2016

A clear audience makes for a good blog post

By Andre Francisco

The most important advice I give 18F staff while they’re working on a blog post is to define their audience as clearly and as narrowly as possible. This focus has helped us overcome numerous hurdles to publishing quality blog posts, and it’s also the part of our new Blogging Guide that I’m most excited about.

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April 19, 2016

Looking at the different ways to test content

By Emileigh Barnes , Christine Cawthorne

We know good content when we see it, and we’re frustrated when we don’t. Keeping this in mind, are there ways that writers can quantify and measure their writing? We’ve looked at different tests you can run depending on the age of your audience.

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April 18, 2016

The teams, they are a changin’

By Michael Torres

To truly harness the power of agile practices, you need a stable team. But people leave under normal circumstances for a variety of reasons. While recognizing the need for stable teams, there are things our team does and should do to be resilient in the face of change.

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April 15, 2016

Compliance Masonry: Building a risk management platform, brick by brick

By Mossadeq Zia , Gabriel Ramírez , Noah Kunin

We’re trying to change how we approach the development of system security plans. Our goal is to create a system that allows system custodians, security operations staff, and executives to actively interact, update, and generate assurance reports with searchable content and testable security controls to satisfy any type of risk management framework. The current prototype is called Compliance Masonry.

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April 13, 2016

7 projects that state and local governments can reuse

By Melody Kramer

We’re starting to see state and local governments adapt or use 18F products or tools. Nothing could make us happier. Here are seven projects that would work particularly well at any level of government.

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