Agile Sourcing for Open Source Web Development

Zach Chandler

Wait, who are you exactly?Stanford University

● Technology Strategist (2015 - )● Web Strategist SWS (3 years)● Drupal community member

(8 years)

Ambergris Consulting● Principal (2012 - )

Your RFP is killing your project

RFP is a blunt instrument

Expository Sketch is the new RFP

Guideposts from Design Thinking

image source: Stanford d.school (http://dschool.stanford.edu/)

Clients: empathize with vendors

HMW:How might we improve the experience of outsourcing web development?

HMW:How might we make the process of outsourcing web development more human centered?

Changing the tenor:moving away from the adversarial, toward collaboration

Guideposts from Agile

The Agile ManifestoIndividuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

The Agile ManifestoIndividuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan

The toolkit

1.Pre-discovery

2. Vendor shortlist

2. Vendor partner invitations

3. Expository Sketch

4. Presentations

5. Consolidated Q&A

6. Follow up conversations

6. Selection scorecard workshop

(7. Tiebreaker questions)

8. Announcements, rationale

9. Selection process summary

(internal document)

10. Statement of Work