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Where to find team USDR at the Code for America Summit
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Where to find team USDR at the Code for America Summit


By Ginger Zielinskie (Center for Civic Futures & Yale SCALE Lab), Sarah Esty (Aspen Institute Financial Security Program), Eric Giannella (Georgetown University Better Government Lab), Anthony Lollo (Yale SCALE Lab), Maria Reyes-Gaskin (U.S. Digital Response)




Your agency’s existing position descriptions are not going to work for supporting an Agile vendor team. You’re going to need to promote an existing employee to the position of product owner, and hire a senior software developer to review the vendor’s work. Here’s how much work that is, and how other agencies have hired for these positions. By Waldo Jaquith


USDR partners with King County, WA, to assess and validate new approaches to verifying absentee ballots


How a rapid content strategy overhaul will help thousands of fire-affected residents find critical recovery resources


State agency is empowered to make data-driven decisions through accessible Google Analytics guidance


Michael Boyce discusses tech talent, his time at DHS and his new job in an interview with FedScoop.


USDR partners with Portland's Digital Services Team to optimize permitting chatbot and build internal AI capabilities
Monolithic IT modernizations, according to U.S. Digital Response’s Waldo Jaquith, can increase a government’s risk of an IT project failure that requires even more time and resources to amend.


We're in Washington, D.C. for an incredible few days at the Code for America Summit – be sure to stop by and say hi!


USDR partnered with Multnomah County to help build out their web and digital experience team.