# Learning Techniques for Public Servants

Five learning techniques that public servants can employ to perform their jobs more effectively in today’s complex technological environment.

# Why Government IT Professionals Need to Do What the Cool Kids Are Doing

A case for why hiring and growing great people requires government IT professionals to do what the cool kids are doing.

# Puerto Rico, a Disaster Lab: Three Research Proposals

Puerto Rico is a natural testing-ground for disaster resilience technologies due to its unique characteristics. Here we present three research project ideas in the Internet of Things space.

# Maximizing the Power of APIs: Balancing Freedom and Control

If an organization really wants to empower its users, it needs a way to provide maximum power to the user with both safety and security. APIs allow you to design a solution that’s not simply the average of these extremes, but rather provides 90% of the power with 99% of the security.

# Quick Wins for Legacy Systems Through API Enablement

A lighthearted, mock email between two government program managers discussing the immediate benefits of API enablement as a precursor to modernizing a legacy system.

# Story of a DARPA Proposal

A brief story of our experience submitting a proposal to DARPA to conduct research on the latest Low Power Wide Area Network technology.

# How to Rescue Failing Programs

To rescue a failing program, you must protect the four freedoms of enterprise system development.

# Unsolicited Proposal for a Microconsulting Services Marketplace Platform

A preannouncement for an unsolicited proposal to construct a microconsulting services marketplace platform, which we plan to pitch to the entire federal government.

# Supplement Your Team with Specific Digital Expertise Through Our Microconsulting Services

Not every problem requires a full-blown consulting engagement. Often times, a short burst of work on a specific topic is all that’s needed to help propel government managers and teams forward.

# Reactions to Our Agile Share-in-Savings Model

Several months ago, we published a blog post series on a concept called Agile Share-in-Savings. We received a number of positive reactions, as well as some worthy counter-arguments.

# Software Badness Quantified

Until a more robust model for measuring technical debt is developed, we suggest using a simple formula for measuring the “badness” of a codebase in order to facilitate system improvement decisions.

# Case Management: A Study in Non-Traditional Economics for Government

Case management systems are commonplace and largely overlap. Agencies and vendors should consider innovative models for cooperating with one another in order to reduce duplicative efforts.