U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey CDI Webinar Series 2013 Mobile Framework Lorna Schmid, AEI Tim Kern, Fort Collins Science Center Nov 13, 2013

2 CDI Webinar Series 2013 What we’ll cover: What the heck is a Mobile Framework and why do we need one? –FY12 developed a scalable life-cycle based process for managing app development and deployment –FY13 Tim will cover best practices, testing tools and protocols, and experience gained –FY14 – SOI Submitted and Approved.

3 CDI Webinar Series 2013 Why do we need a Framework: Because the challenges still exist: –Rapidly changing environment –Duplicated efforts –No formalized common tools or processes –No deployment or life-cycle management approach –Unknown, or limited support opportunities collaboration, funding and data sharing

4 CDI Webinar Series 2013 Mobile Framework: Support for the Mobile Ecosystem Focused on –Establishing a Community reduce duplication of effort, establish lessons learned –Incorporating technical and project management perspectives and requirements into the app life-cycle –Establishing an efficient, documented method for deployment of compliant apps Navigate a minefield of federal requirements Workflow, support tools such as inventory, version control and configuration and change management, test platforms –Incorporating industry best practices Let’s have a FAST look at the workflows:

10 CDI Webinar Series 2013 More about the Mobile Framework Directly supports the President’s Digital Strategy requirements to:President’s Digital Strategy –Develop secure, device agnostic mobile applications –Foster code sharing –Validate official government applications –Provide a development test environment to streamline app delivery and more … As of January 2013 DOI is awaiting formal adoption of our approach for providing USGS life-cycle management of development and release and native app license management Let’s take a quick look at the Mobile Community SiteMobile Community Site

11 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY13 Focus: Policy Support Worked with the Department to get “federal friendly” Terms of Service approved for various stores as well as a Mobile PIA and summary guidelines Developed knowledge base on other policy issues: 508/accessibility, privacy acts, paperwork reduction act, COPPA, underserved communities, Digital Government Strategy –Most of these extend existing web policies to address mobile presentation and data collection

12 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY13 Focus: Development Support Initial cut at the application developer’s checklist Coordination with GSA’s MobileGov initiative Developing “Good Practices” pages for mobile web and responsive design approaches Support for various Git-based repositories Documenting and evaluating USGS mobile- ready web services

13 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY13 Focus: Security and Test Offered code and functionality review for initial efforts Worked with mobile web efforts on scanning and remediation of found exploits Researched and ran pilot performance tests on native and mobile web projects Worked with the GSA Tapas project to evaluate crowd sourced testing Started cataloging device market share

14 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY13 Focus: Metrics and Analytics Started analytics checklist, to help project managers understand options associated with their technology choice Worked with myUSGS project to develop mobile-friendly Issue Collector, to ensure user feedback could be captured Trained interested developers on use of myUSGS Jira for defect capture and monitoring

15 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY13 Lessons Learned Some successes, some abject failures Need a distributed team to handle support, cannot rely on one person or even one cost center Development process, if done correctly, can be pretty expensive – need to find ways to share costs among projects to drive overall costs down

16 CDI Webinar Series 2013 FY14 Desired Outcomes Publish a Governance Model –FSPAC Coordination Adopt USGS Mobile apps as Official Products –A Policy Matrix that also supports Web, Social Media and other products with overlapping policy requirements. –License Management Document development support options and processes Provide review and approval tools and processes to assist developers and project managers –License Management, Security and Code Reviews, Science Review, etc. Change Management –Finalize Inventory –Finalize Code Repository (GitHub) Documentation and Training to support Mobile and Cloud –Ensure code integrity and agility that allows migration between private and public cloud services on demand Develop a USGS Mobile app

17 CDI Webinar Series 2013 Questions? Contact –Lorna Schmid and Tim Kern: & Web URL: if applicable –