OSSDC 2012: SaMoLo in Government Open Source Projects

Presented by Leslie Power, Development Manager (Contractor, 5AM Solutions/CGI), CONNECT Product Team.

Transcript

1. SaMoLo in
   Government Open
   Source Projects
   Lessons from
   the CONNECT project
   

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2. A Nation’s Call to Action
   “We’ll be on our way to computerizing all of America’s
   medical records, which won’t just eliminate inefficiencies,
   save billions of dollars and create tens of thousands of jobs
   – but will save lives by reducing deadly medical errors.”
   – President Barack Obama, February 4, 2009
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3. What is CONNECT?
   CONNECT is a software solution that
   supports health information exchange.
   CONNECT uses Nationwide Health
   Information Network standards and
   governance to ensure HIEs interoperate
   with other current and future exchanges.
   CONNECT can be used to:
   •  Set up a health information exchange
   within an organization.
   •  Tie a health information exchange into
   other HIEs including the Exchange.
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4. Federal Health Architecture
   Collaborative Mindset Seeded CONNECT
   FHA ensures Federal participation in ONC-led initiatives
   •  E-gov initiative managed by ONC within HHS
   •  20+ federal agencies participate in FHA
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5. CONNECT
   Open Source Project Since (Date)
   CONNECT was “released as open source code” to keep costs low and to
   promote widespread adoption to encourage health information exchange.
   FHA enabled cross-agency collaboration,
   aggregate + coordinated benefits
   Use of open source tools accelerated
   development
   Open source community contributed to
   development
   CONNECT is in the midst of transitioning to
   a fully open-source community-driven project.
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6. Spectrum of Government
   Open Source Projects
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   Project Uses Open
   Source Components
   Open Source
   License
   Source Code
   “Published”
   Source Code
   Hosted/Available
   Government-Sponsored
   Open Source Project
   Open Source
   Project that
   Originated in
   the Government
   

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7. SaMoLo
   Technique used in Agile
   software projects to guide
   project or sprint retrospective
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   “Same As”
   “More Of”
   “Less Of”
   Sa
   Mo
   Lo
   

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8. SaMoLo – Same As
   Open and broad collaboration
   Honesty
   Leveraging common needs
   Openly expose the release planning
   … and requirements …. and the process
   Hybrid balance between funding and non-funding
   partner requirements!!
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9. SaMoLo – More Of
   Up-front investment
   - Coding standards!!
   - Flexible infrastructure
   - Structured, defined, and understood internal and external
   communication plans
   - Definition of roles and governance
   Sustained investment in community
   - Dedicated technical resources to outreach and nurturing of the
   community (tricky labor category?)
   Acknowledgment that you – your office, your program, and your
   contract support – are going to REALLY expose yourselves –
   process, quality, risks, issues, results
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10. SaMoLo – More Of
    Long-term planning – discuss the exit strategy early.
    And know that it will change.
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11. SaMoLo – Less Of
    Caveat: These did not occur with FHA/CONNECT, but in general are
    behaviors that need to be set aside when you’re running an open
    source project
    Fear
    Rigidity
    Tolerance of dissention/posturing among collaborating
    contractor teams – the only focus should be support
    the mission, on the project faces risk
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14. Upcoming Community Events
    June 28, 2012 (11am)
    Webinar on GitHub
    July 2, 2012 (1pm)
    Next sprint planning meeting
    August 1, 2012
    CONNECT Release 3.3.1
    August, 2012
    CONNECT Code-a-Thon
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15. •  www.connectopensource.org
    •  https://github.com/CONNECT-Solution/CONNECT
    •  mailto:connect@hhs.gov
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