GSA DevSecOps goes mobile
The General Services Administration leads with an approach that includes mobile in all areas of its operations.
VA.gov offers vets new “online front door” for services
The newly-launched VA.gov presents a unified front for veteran services and agency functions, signaling its new focus on customer experience.
Federal agile startup 18F has shrunk by half under current administration
The government IT fix-it shop 18F had a headcount of around 300 of the best and brightest technologists in government when Trump took office, and now has less than 150.
Agile development is high priority for state IT leaders in annual NASCIO survey
FedScoop reports that, for the third consecutive year, agile development is on the list of "top ten" priorities in 2018 for state IT leaders who responded to NASCIO's annual State CIO Survey.
FedScoop: ‘DevOps will make the government more efficient. But what actually is it?’
DevOps champions from federal agencies share their various viewpoints on what 'DevOps' actually means.
FedScoop: ‘White House issues long-awaited IT modernization report’
An IT modernization report issued by the White House’s American Technology Council and Office of American Innovation suggests agencies channel funds away from legacy systems to modern technologies and agile practices.
Wanted: agile contracting officers
While agile development is driving innovation in the federal tech and citizen services realms, the procurement process is struggling to catch up -- but can contracting officers be trained in agile?
Podcast: IT-as-a-service holds transformation opportunity for government
Agencies should invest in agile, cloud-based IT infrastructure in order to reap the benefits of reduced IT enterprise costs and improved digital service delivery, according to an interview by FedScoop.
Applying agile to the modernizing of legacy federal systems
Legacy government systems can be modernized if the work is broken into isolated chunks and then financed using an agile share-in-savings model.
FedScoop: ‘How the federal government is using IT to lower costs’
Top IT leaders gathered to discuss how lean and agile practices can help agencies save money -- provided they are able to make the necessary cultural changes.