On Monday 6 April 2009 GOVIS hosted a forum exploring the opportunities for—and issues facing—the adoption of Agile development methodologies in the government space. The forum featured a panel of four people representing several different viewpoints: Mike Lowery, Agile evangelist; Liesle Venter-Wagner, developer; Mark Pascall, vendor; and Andy Neale, client. The forum was introduced and [...]
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 the State Services Commission hosted a discussion on aspects of data re-use. Sponsored by GOVIS, with five expert panellists (Nat Torkington, Fiona Romeo, Toby Segaran, Adrian Holovaty and David Recordon) supplied by Webstock, this was a wide-ranging discussion covering policy questions and technical issues. Staff of the Strategy and Innovation [...]
Here in the GCIO we’re considering the question of government information and data re-use. We want to work together with suppliers of non-personal government information, opening the vaults, releasing the butterfly from its chrysalis. To keep ourselves firmly rooted in reality we’re looking at the problem through the lens of a real-world test case: job [...]
