Posts belonging to Category Government 2.0

20 Questions with Bill Portelli interview

MGI Research just published a detailed interview with CollabNet’s president, Bill Portelli. In this interview, Bill discusses his views on industry mega-trends like Agile and the Cloud, and how CollabNet is responding. The interview is available at http://www.mgiresearch.com/20-Questions/20-questions-with-collabnet-ceo-bill-portelli.html David ParkerDavid Parker, Vice President and General Manager, Scrum Business Line David leads CollabNet’s Scrum Business Line [...]

Innovation – Not Just For DISA Any More

In The New York Times opinion pages,  The U.S.S. Prius – NYTimes.com,Thomas Friedman reports Department of Defense work on a number of green power initiatives. Just as at Forge.Mil, the DoD seems to be putting real effort into well thought out, efficient and promising ideas, leading the way for government in general, and arguably even [...]

Culture or Policy – a Federal Government Case Study

Although US Government legislation is moving to include business users on software development projects, agencies and systems integrators will still have the flexibility to maneuver around these laws using cultural norms as the justification.

Forge.mil Update: Mission, Community, & New Things

It’s been altogether too long since I last updated readers on the state of Forge.mil, so I’ll take this opportunity to remedy that and share with you some of the things we’re most excited about, as well as reiterate the overall mission of the system. I think it’s important to make sure people new to [...]

Baseball, Hot Dogs, Government & Community

It’s often said that sports are a metaphor for life & business – after the good natured ribbing I took from my CollabNet colleagues last night at the San Francisco Giants game, I’m even more convinced of this. You see, I’m a HUGE Giants baseball fan (and, as my wife would tell you, I also [...]

Guy Martin Empowers DOD’s Agile Development in the Cloud

At CollabNet, we appreciate that the world understands our contributions to the advancement of practical methods of software development in the cloud.  For instance, last month, I traveled to Davos where I met with industry leaders who share our vision and want to improve the world with technology. There, CollabNet was recognized by the World [...]

Government 2.0 From the Inside Out…

There is a LOT of effort being spent by the United States government to increase transparency to the taxpayers. In general, there are some great efforts (such as data.gov and usa.gov), and I think we should continue pushing the edge of the envelope in citizen participation with government. However, I believe we have a MUCH [...]

Recent DoD Guidance on Open Source Software might be a first step in breaking the cycle of failed software reuse policies

The recent guidance from the Department of Defense (DoD) issued by Deputy CIO David Wennergren (Oct. 29th) is certainly a milestone for open source software.  It states that the DoD should consider open source software on equal footing with commercial software offerings.  While this in itself is an important achievement, the guidance goes further to reference [...]

Government 2.0 Through Successive Approximations

With ‘Government 2.0‘ receiving a disproportionate amount of coverage in the press lately (due in part to the new administration’s focus on transparency – a good thing in my opinion), there have been a number of pundits who have asked, ‘When will we know that we’ve reached Government 2.0, and how long is that going [...]

Community Building – Government 2.0 Style

As I thought about the title for this post, I realized I’d be taking my chances with it from a hype and buzzword perspective. If there were ever two concepts that are emblematic of where we are today in technology, it would have to be ‘Community’ and ‘Government 2.0‘. Unfortunately, they are also two of [...]