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Independent government cost estimates are essential.

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A standing disclaimer about my Agile procurement writing.

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Delivery deadlines are a mistake.

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Detailed deliverables are a mistake.

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Capital funding poisons software projects.

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The Intergovernmental Software Collaborative has a forever home.

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How to foster better collaboration.

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Why government software is so expensive.

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One neat trick for buying software that isn’t trash.

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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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Why I Work in the Open.

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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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