My playbook for the U.S. Digital Services: throw away the fucking playbook.<p>You can already see them sitting in meetings for months discussing each bullet point on the playbook, getting nothing done.
I think that this sentence, from Play 8 "Choose a modern technology stack," could have far reaching significance:<p>"In particular, digital services teams should consider using open source, cloud based, and commodity solutions across the technology stack, as these solutions have seen widespread adoption and support by the most successful private-sector consumer and enterprise software technology companies."<p>Note "open source." I doubt that companies like Microsoft and Oracle are very pleased to be reading this directive.<p>If the directive is taken seriously by government agencies, especially by DoD, the benefits could be very large, I daresay even transformational for the open-source ecosystem and the companies built upon it.
> Make it simple and intuitive<p>Wish the back button worked. This whole section is comprised of good points, so it's a shame that this simple brochure site doesn't follow.