AGILE APPLCATIONS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: New Platform Tries to Bring Some Normalcy to the Agile Craze. New data from Bloomberg Government shows spending on agile services increased to $368 million in fiscal 2016 from $242 million in 2015 among the 40 biggest contract vehicles. The MITRE Corp. developed a free online platform called Acquisition in the Digital Age (AiDA) to provide tools, references and best practices for agencies to use agile methodologies. Read more
[FEDERALNEWSRADIO.COM]
CLOUD: Can an Agile Cloud Plug the ‘Brain Drain’ in Public Service? Do stacks of paperwork detailing security and compliance regulations keep talented innovators out of government agencies that badly need them? Read the rest
[SILICONANGLE.COM]
STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT: 5 Tech Projects That Show Major Benefits Can Come from Modest Investments. In these days of agile development, with Silicon Valley preaching the virtues of failing fast and moving on, it’s hard to see a place for the traditional great big IT procurement in government. Find out more
[GOVTECH.COM]
LEARN: How to Build an Agile Marketing Team Across Time Zones. Agile marketing is focused around core teams that are always innovating, testing, analyzing and revising, an approach that’s made even more challenging these days by two fast-growing organizational trends: freelance employees and remote teams. One result of these trends is that companies – even small ones – must find ways to collaborate across time zones to deliver competitive marketing services to their clients and customers. Here are four techniques for staying agile. Read more
[CMSWIRE.COM]
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