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October 20, 2015

Five factors for building a successful government-wide digital analytics program

By Marina Fox , Gwynne Kostin

Launched just three years ago, the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) continues to drive the 2012 Digital Government Strategy’s mission to improve the citizen experience by streamlining the collection and analysis of digital analytics data on a federal government-wide scale. Today, 45 agencies — including all CFO Act agencies — have implemented the common code across more than 4,000 public-facing websites, counting 1.5 BILLION pageviews each month.

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October 15, 2015

18F’s best practices for making distributed teams work

By Melody Kramer , Michelle Hertzfeld

18F employees live all over the country, which means it's normal for the members of a project team to be spread across multiple cities. Because our teams are distributed, we've developed certain strategies for working well as a collaborative operation.

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October 14, 2015

What's in a name: Understanding and using government acronyms

By Emileigh Barnes

We have an acronyms section in our Content Guide, a resource we heartily recommend. Acronyms and abbreviations also have a ton of associated history and nuance, which we’re shedding light on here, hopefully to encourage other authors and agencies to think carefully about how they use them in digital tools.

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October 13, 2015

Open Source Micro-purchasing: An experiment in federal acquisition

By V. David Zvenyach

In the next few weeks, we're going to use our micro-purchase authority to run an experiment to contract for open source contributions to our active projects.

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October 9, 2015

To always be shipping, you need a shipyard

By Bret Mogilefsky

We’ve developed cloud.gov, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), to tackle core infrastructure issues and enable our small development teams to improve the delivery of 18F products.

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