Developing a Lean, Agile Procurement Guide

At Code for America, we’re encouraged to release work product often – what the techy entrepreneur crowd terms an iterative, lean, agile development process. The net result forces you to embrace mistakes, rather than be in denial about them. In this way, work product is available, even if it is in an imperfect state, to begin leveraging community around the project.

In following this philosophy with the Legal Procurement Guide, I’d like to share with you the “Minimal Viable Findings” or MVF as I will call it. Starting in late June, I began reaching out and scheduling, then conducting, and then distilling and documenting phonecalls with about 9 people. All the while, I was continuing to read and digest more resources on the topic, and fold them into our MVF living guide....