Improving contract transitions with agile
Agile processes can improve communications and hand-offs during contract transitions, providing more stability for client operations.
GCN: ‘Modernization takes more than technology’
As IT leaders embrace modernization in government, they must look beyond technology to the cultural and strategic shifts that are essential to transformation.
How government IT teams can implement DevOps
Agencies that are considering moving to the cloud should adopt a multimodal approach that applies DevOps and agile methodologies to their legacy systems.
Medicare agency uses agile to sharpen payment processes
"[Agile development] is about getting us into the 21st century, but it was a huge change for us and a huge learning curve," says Kate Goodrich, director and chief medical officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
GCN: 4 steps to agile success
As agencies move away from traditional waterfall development frameworks and seek to embrace agile methods, there are a few steps they can take to maximize success.
Tips for getting more participation in agile retrospectives
The retrospective is a meeting during which an agile team constructively embraces failure to achieve continuous improvement -- but self-critique is a hard skill for some to learn, especially in agencies where the concepts of agile processes are new.
GCN: ‘A case-by-case DevOps strategy’
For the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one key strategy has been the creation of cloud implementation team that brings individuals from security, applications and network teams to identify the most pressing issues.
IT officials discuss DevOps strategies
DevOps is used to incorporate new learnings into operations solutions in an automated and repeatable manner, but it can be challenging to implement DevOps within legacy systems.
CMS makes plans for Agile Center of Excellence
Providing a strategic framework for agile adoption for the entire agency will help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services better address the agency’s changing IT needs in the evolving health care environment.
GCN: ‘State CIOs look to agile’
GCN reports on a preliminary survey released by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and consulting firm Accenture, which shows the positive results state CIOs are seeing from agile methods.