- Understand what people need.
- Address the whole experience, from start to finish.
- Make it simple and intuitive.
- Build the service using agile and iterative practices.
- Structure budgets and contracts to support delivery.
- Assign one leader and hold that person accountable.
- Bring in experienced teams.
- Choose a modern technology stack.
- Deploy in a flexible hosting environment.
- Automate testing and deployments.
- Manage security and privacy through reusable processes.
- Use data to drive decisions.
- Default to open.
That sounds like a list anyone creating something online should follow. Would you guess it’s actually from the US government Digital Services Playbook? Great work by Steven VanRoekel and his team, which I had the pleasure of meeting last time I was in DC. Hat tip: Anil Dash.
You’re right. I wouldn’t have believed it coming from a great many other sources.
Doing a one-man team simple product development and this list looks good. Practicing 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 12, planning 13 once I get to v1.0. Not sure how to go about pushing 8 but WP JSON API, and kimonolabs.com looks like they’ll play nice together.
Product is a simple side project: WordPress Newsboard (currently) at http://bowo.io/wpnews/ One week ish after launch (two days initial build), and data increasingly says about 75% are returning visitors (sample size is about 10 to 20 visitors a day though).
Thanks for sharing Matt!… Too bad I didn’t get to shake your hand at recent http://wpjkt.org meetup. Obviously too many competitors! Great talk back there. Thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a whole lot. 🙂
Doing a one-man team simple product development and this list looks good. Practicing 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 12, planning 13 once I get to v1.0. Not sure how to go about pushing 8 but WP JSON API, and kimonolabs.com looks like they’ll play nice together.
Product is a simple side project: WordPress Newsboard (currently) at http://bowo.io/wpnews/ One week ish after launch (two days initial build), and data increasingly says about 75% are returning visitors (sample size is about 10 to 20 visitors a day though). So, looks like this meets no.1.
Thanks for sharing Matt!… Too bad I didn’t get to shake your hand at recent http://wpjkt.org meetup. Obviously too many competitors! Great talk back there. Thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a whole lot. 🙂
Seems awfully broad for a government document. If I were to venture a guess each of those 13 items has several hundred pages of supporting information written at a fifth-grade level explaining how to order the office supplies necessary to support that step.