Planning Process

OpenOpps (Midas) is open source software which powers the federal government Open Opportunities program. It is availble as software-as-a-service for agencies which wish to run their own programs. Agencies may run programs on Open Opportunties with no fees; however, additional features are available for agencies that can allocate budget for the platform.

We work iteratively in 1 week sprints. Monthly we evaluate our metrics, and adjust priorities based on the data and qualitative feedback. We aspire to do continuous user research with periodic formative research when we significantly expand into a new area.

Decision process:

• Each sprint should validate the work scheduled against metrics, as well as a qualitative assessment of progress toward the big goals.
• Retrospective to look at what works and lessons learned during or after each sprint.
• Invite users and govt stakeholders to participate in design ideation sessions and reviews
• When decisions are made, Open Opps will validate design against the experience of its larger community.  If other agencies or organizations with active deployments participating in open wish to experiment with alternate approaches, then we'll consider these as configurable options.
• Open Opps branding assets will be maintained in a separate repository.

We will use a single set of issues, specifying tags as needed instead of two github repositories (moving tasks over as needed).