All software created by governments should be open source and free from vendor lock-ins. Working with the “Common Ground” guidelines does exactly that.
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Common Ground is an information technology vision that was created to improve the control, quality and ownership over public government information systems. Common Ground architecture is mostly used by municipalities, among other public organisations.
This is the moment we discover the goals of current and future users of your application and interview the stakeholders of the project. We explore the technical landscape and define the design and development steps required to achieve these goals.
We analyse the original brief and the existing requirements. We meet the users, define the flows, and visualise the solution. Once validated, we turn the flows into stories and specifications for the technical teams to build.
When working with multiple parties, we create clear processes and agreements on how we work and integrate together. Technical governance is complex, we make it less so.
We iteratively implement the software using agile principles. We prepare the backlogs we will work on, put the front-end components on the screen, integrate test-driven with OpenAPI interfaces and share the progress in a review.
Ultimately we need to deliver and validate the solution, involving a variety of Lifely experts, stakeholders and end-users. In this phase, feedback is collected and fed back into the solution design and agile development iterations.
Together we transfer the knowledge and process in a way that suits your organisation. We write documentation, organise technical handover sessions about best practices and even “co-development sprint” with your team and the Lifely developers.
Common Ground software puts public organisations into a position of power and full ownership over their software and the data of their users. This greatly increases transparency and data privacy for end-users that usually don’t have any say in the software.
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