The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

https://playbook.cio.gov/

by dandrewsen • 12 years ago

42 9 12 years ago

playbook.cio.gov

miles932• 12 years ago

Mikey absolutely rocks.

ibejoeb• 12 years ago

Make it simple and intuitive

Wish the back button worked. This whole section is comprised of good points, so it's a shame that this simple brochure site doesn't follow.

ChristianBundy• 12 years ago

https://github.com/whitehouse/playbook/pulls

revelation• 12 years ago

My playbook for the U.S. Digital Services: throw away the fucking playbook.

You can already see them sitting in meetings for months discussing each bullet point on the playbook, getting nothing done.

chrisan• 12 years ago

You do realize this wasnt created "by the government" but instead Mikey Dickerson who was poached from Google to fix healthcare.gov

I think it would be worthwhile to read instead of "throw away the fucking playbook" site unseen

Spooky23• 12 years ago

Cynical me thought the same thing. Lots of fodder here for IBM/Oracle/etc to spin from.

TomDavey• 12 years ago

I think that this sentence, from Play 8 "Choose a modern technology stack," could have far reaching significance:

"In particular, digital services teams should consider using open source, cloud based, and commodity solutions across the technology stack, as these solutions have seen widespread adoption and support by the most successful private-sector consumer and enterprise software technology companies."

Note "open source." I doubt that companies like Microsoft and Oracle are very pleased to be reading this directive.

If the directive is taken seriously by government agencies, especially by DoD, the benefits could be very large, I daresay even transformational for the open-source ecosystem and the companies built upon it.

serge2k• 12 years ago

Doesn't the DoD already take Open Source very seriously?

mpyne• 12 years ago

Yep.

Not seriously enough IMHO, but I was using open source in my job as far back as 2006, on gear that wasn't even that new.

The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

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