Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 22nd from 00:36 to 14:40:

• Discovering discovery – Not enough people actually begin at the beginning.
  Often when I meet teams working on service transformation, or digital change projects, I find that they’ve…
• Working with specialist suppliers — Government Service Design Manual – GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies
  We’re improving the Service Manual. Help us get it right (opens a short survey on…
• Reader mail: Can Agile development work for government, anyway? – Early last week, we looked at one of the many reasons Healthcare.gov failed the way it did: The use of the “waterfall” software development methodology,…
• Tomorrow Today – (This is my chapter from the new Creative Social book: Hacker, Maker, Teacher, Thief: Advertising’s Next Generation. More info on the book I also helped edit at…
• Towards a More Agile Government » Ben Balter – 41 Pub. Cont. L.J. 149 The Public Contract Law Journal, Fall 2011
  Like many government computer systems, the U.S. federal information technology (IT)…
• Avoiding cloudfall: A systematic approach to cloud migration – An official website of the United States Government
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  by V David Zvenyach, Noah Kunin, Jay Finch, Ozzy Johnson, Mike Bland, and Chris…
• Bits or pieces?: Gov should start handing over large wads of cash to us, preferably in a truck – The latest piece of craft from Kat Hall on how a “GDS Monopoly leaves UK.gov at risk of IT cock-ups” was interesting, to say the least. I’m sure Kat Hall is…
• UX Lessons Learned From A Procurement Project – An official website of the United States Government
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  by Greg Boone and Elaine Kamlley and Melody Kramer
  UX designer Nick Brethauer has spent…
• Making Procurement Easier: Some Questions For Developer Kaitlin Devine – An official website of the United States Government
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  by Greg Boone and Elaine Kamlley and Melody Kramer
  We recently sat down with developer…
• Bits or pieces?: Why Agile, Lean and Six Sigma must die … – Every large system (whether a line of business or specific IT project) contains multiple components. Those components have a relationship with each other (known…
• Why humans run the world – 70,000 years ago humans were insignificant animals. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the…
• [1506.03340] Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend – Loading [MathJax]/extensions/MathZoom.js We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions Title: Teaching Machines to Read…
• Google DeepMind Teaches Artificial Intelligence Machines to Read – A revolution in artificial intelligence is currently sweeping through computer science. The technique is called deep learning and it’s affecting everything from…
• John Boyd (military strategist) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Colonel John Richard Boyd (January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant of the late 20th century, whose…
• The Boydian Dialectic – If you’re a certain sort of metacognition-obsessed person, at some point in your intellectual wanderings, you will eventually run into a murky and illegible…
• New York slams Verizon, calls city-wide FiOS rollout ‘an egregious failure’ – Ask New Yorkers about Verizon FiOS, and you’ll get one of two answers. If they are one of the lucky people who have access, they’ll swoon about its fantastic…
• Slack and Flickr co-founder says ‘fuck you’ to WSJ over Charleston shooting – Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of both Slack and Flickr, has condemned the The Wall Street Journal on Twitter for an editorial it published after the…
• Why I’m worried about Apple Music – June 22, 2015 10:05 AM PT
  By Dan Moren
  I’m a little worried about Apple Music.
  And it’s not the wrangling over terms with artists, or the muddled messaging, or…
• An open response to Taylor Swift’s rant against Apple – Dear Taylor Swift,
  I have read your open letter to Apple where you give your reasons for refusing to allow your album ‘1989′ to be included on their forthcoming…
• Workforce, infrastructure and avoiding future crashes: Q&A with Greg Ambrose — FCW – Data Management
  In July 2014, the State Department’s Consular Consolidated Database — a system of 12 databases that processes U.S. visa and passport requests —…
• Understanding State’s big database crash: Q&A with Greg Ambrose — FCW – Data Management
  The department’s director of consular systems and technology explains what happened this summer, and how his office is trying to prevent a…
• Watchdog Points to Poor Management in Multimillion-Dollar IT Failure at USDA – Ray Gaesser climbs onto a sprayer on his farm, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, near Corning, Iowa. // Charlie Neibergall/AP
  A decade-long IT modernization at the…
• Understanding State’s big database crash: Q&A with Greg Ambrose — FCW – Data Management
  The department’s director of consular systems and technology explains what happened this summer, and how his office is trying to prevent a…
• The Ultimate High-Fiber Grocery List – The next time you go food shopping, put these items in your cart. They’re great sources of fiber, which can cut your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, is good for your…
• Understanding State’s big database crash: Q&A with Greg Ambrose — FCW – Data Management
  The department’s director of consular systems and technology explains what happened this summer, and how his office is trying to prevent a…
• Visa Systems Issues | Hacker News – If it’s a purely hw issue, say a piece of highly specialized hardware (hw crypto, piece of old mainframe, etc), it can take a very long time to source it…
• Technological Systems Issue – More than 100 experts across the country are working on this problem 24/7. We are pursuing a variety of solutions. This week, nearly 750 temporary or seasonal…