ATOM
Overview

The Applications Template and Outfitting Model (ATOM) ™ provides a step-by-step guide for initiating, building, and updating Digital Government applications. ATOM includes information on state policies, authorizing and business requirements, shared infrastructure, and reusable templates and code for project development.

ATOM builds on a half decade of experience with emerging technologies where the builders of digital government can:

• Learn how to define an Internet-based applications project, identify business needs and objectives, create the right project team, and minimize risks;
• Navigate through the authorizing environment in sequence and easily locate the appropriate policies, standards and guidelines (payments, privacy, security, archiving, auditing architecture, web presentation)
• Connect with new technologies (digital signatures, web server hosting, e-forms, online applications support)
• Download the latest templates, code and script to speed development.

ATOM does not prescribe a specific application development lifecycle. Although it is presented in a classic waterfall model, each using organization may map the activities specified in the phases into its own lifecycle model.