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December 1, 2015

How we dramatically improved 18F’s onboarding process in 3 months

By Melody Kramer

Over the past three months, we’ve released several products that help new hires acclimate to our organization. In this blog post, we’ll detail what we did and why it works really well.

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November 30, 2015

A look at complex data in USEITI

By Greg Boone

We've been working with the Office of Natural Resource Revenues on implementing the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standard, which includes all kinds of data. One new data point we have this year is the federal production number: The amount of a given resource produced on federal lands.

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November 20, 2015

How we use a lean approach to product design

By Nick Brethauer , Colin MacArthur

Here at 18F, several product teams (including CALC, Discovery, and EITI) have been experimenting with a lean product design approach to building software, often called “lean UX.” In a nutshell, it is a set of ideas about design and project management that help us focus not just on what we build, but on the outcomes our tools enable.

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November 19, 2015

New playbook details what it's like to work with 18F Delivery

By Will Slack

If you or your agency have thought about working with 18F but are unsure of how we work with our partners, we have a new set of guidelines to help you out. The 18F Delivery Partnership Playbook is specifically targeted at federal offices interested in working with 18F to build digital services.

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November 18, 2015

The current future of 18F marketplaces

By Chris Cairns , V. David Zvenyach , Noah Kunin , Andrew McMahon

In August, we announced the Full-stack Development Pool vendors for the Agile Delivery Services Marketplace. As we continue to work on the alpha version of this marketplace, we're beginning to plan out additional micro-markets as well.

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