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Brigade Project Stages

@hackyourcity

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Experiment

Alpha

Beta

Official

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Increase the Quality

  • Validated User Needs
  • More reliable code
  • Published analytics
  • Measureable impacts
  • World changing social movement

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Civic Tech App Store

http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/projects

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Experiment

Alpha

Beta

Official

Theme

Project Team

Brigade

Code for America

Requirements

Success

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Experiment

Make many things

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Experiment

Project Team

  • Listen to community
  • Research a problem
  • Lots of experiments

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Experiment

Brigade

  • Create space for listening, learning, experimenting
  • Invite community experts and government in to conversations
  • Make infrastructure and resources easily accessible for experiments
  • Show off experiments

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Experiment

Code for America

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Experiment

Project Team

  • Listen, learn, experiment

Brigade

  • Be a Brigade

Code for America

  • Get hook ups

Theme

  • Make many things

Requirements

  • Code of Conduct

Success

  • Everyone learns

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Alpha

Solve one person’s problem

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Alpha

Project Team

  • Talk to users
  • Agile development
  • Potential partners
  • Choose a project owner
  • Make the project accessible to other contributors
    • Good README
    • Help Wanted

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Alpha

Brigade

  • Approve the project
  • Add to Brigade project list
  • Help with user testing

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Alpha

Code for America

  • The awesome power of a fully operational CfAPI
  • Added to Civic Issue Finder
  • User testing resources and support
  • Accessible project examples
  • Agile development resources and support
  • Project planning office hours

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Alpha

Project Team

  • Talk to users

Brigade

  • Help with user testing

Code for America

  • Help with user testing

Theme

  • Solve one person’s problem

Requirements

  • Project owner
  • User Testing

Success

  • Published validated user needs

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Beta

Moaaar Users

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Beta

Project Team

  • Talk to users
  • Agile development
  • Make it work for more people
  • Code testing

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Beta

Brigade

  • Formalize government, community, or media partner
  • Start to measure impact
  • Fight trough of despair

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Beta

Code for America

  • Monitoring support
  • Engineering office hours
  • Access to additional subject experts

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Beta

Project Team

  • Get more users

Brigade

  • Get official partner

Code for America

  • Help with stability

Theme

  • More users

Requirements

  • Partner

Success

  • Not a free puppy

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Official

Impact

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Official

Project Team

  • Talk to users
  • Polish
  • User accessibility
  • Analytics

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Official

Brigade

  • 🎉 Launch Party 🎉
  • Help spread project
  • Metrics to measure impact

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Official

Code for America

  • Celebrate launched projects
  • Marketing office hours
  • Analytics support
  • Impact office hours

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Official

Project Team

  • Enjoy Party

Brigade

  • Throw party

Code for America

  • Pay for party

Theme

  • Impact

Requirements

  • Party
  • Analytics

Success

  • Measurable impact in your city

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Experiment

Alpha

Beta

Official

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@hackyourcity