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10X De-risking Guide

De-risking Guide.

Guidance for delivering successful custom technology projects in government.

Government software projects fail at an alarmingly high rate.

The de-risking guide was written to provide actionable guidance to the public sector for delivering custom technology projects successfully.

This research is based on 6 years of consulting with over 100 federal agency programs trying to modernize their information technology, written by 18F’s digital consultants, and was funded by 10x.

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