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The past-performance trap.

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No, your agency’s developers cannot “help” your vendor’s devs.

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A GitHub pull request model for outsourced software projects.

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Custom or COTS, either way it’s almost entirely open source software.

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A model for IV&V that's useful

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Discuss: Hacker News

Why I Work in the Open.

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Discuss: Hacker News

Don’t outsource control.

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Toward a proper IT funding approval process.

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An RFI is not a substitute for market research.

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A systemic fix for terrible specialized agency software.

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Embracing Agile implicitly means a major shift in project control.

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Avoiding the “past performance” trap.

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Don’t ask for references—seize them.

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Agile and IGs don’t have to be opposed.

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What if IV&V was actually useful?

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“Customized COTS”: When government demands to be lied to.

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The Frankenstein of Theseus.

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Why government software costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

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