With nearly 24% of .gov sites utilizing Drupal, the government has seen the power of open-source. However, use of Drupal and other open-source and/or free tools can still be a challenge from a procurement, management or regulatory standpoint. In 2012 we have seen agencies such as the White House have overcome some of these barriers and are now active on GitHub and Drupal.org, FEMA released their new site and shared their baseline throughout DHS, and agencies like GSA continue to pave the way for use of free tools via Terms of Service. However, these examples continue to be the exception and many agencies and teams find implementing i
This session will overview the management, procurement, and methodologies that allow teams to most effectively utilize open-source in government.

Providing insight to how the federal government can work within existing guidelines to be more engaged participants in the open-source space, this session will include a panel presentation and feature case study examples from government implementations. The panel will present on the following topics and will be followed by a series of Drupal4Gov BOF sessions:
1- Working with terms of service (GitHub, Drupal.org, Google Analytics, etc.) and how this process works in the federal space.
2- Management methodologies that work: the pros and cons of Kanban, Scrum, and Watergile methodologies.
3- Procurement models that support agile development models (throughput, velocity, team based vrs. individual models).
4- Technical leadership, mentoring and development models: How the Acquia Open-Government Team is using Drupal Ladders internally and externally to grow project teams and the federal Drupal community.

Join us after the presentation for Drupal4Gov BOF Sessions on the following topics:

Federal Procurement & Building Development Teams
Management Methodologies & Community Involvement
Technical Leadership, Mentoring and Drupal Ladders for Gov