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18F’s best practices for making distributed teams work
October 15, 2015
on18F 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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What's in a name: Understanding and using government acronyms
October 14, 2015
onWe 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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Open Source Micro-purchasing: An experiment in federal acquisition
October 13, 2015
onIn 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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To always be shipping, you need a shipyard
October 9, 2015
onWe’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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You shared, we listened — updates to the 18F Content Guide
October 8, 2015
onAfter we launched the 18F Content Guide, we received all kinds of suggestions for updates and improvements. Here's a sampling of some of the improvements we've made recently based on your suggestions.
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