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CASE STUDYApr 28, 2019·4 min read·Updated May 10, 2026

MyPlate: USDA — Agile Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating

Agile delivery for the USDA’s flagship nutrition-education platform, MyPlate.gov.

Client: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
MyPlate: USDA — Agile Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating
AI
Asad Imtiaz
Solutions Architect · AWS, Cybersecurity, DevOps

One Dynamic supported the USDA’s MyPlate.gov nutrition-education platform — used by millions of Americans — through SAFe Agile delivery, accessibility-compliant design, and performance work tuned for peak traffic.

Project Overview

MyPlate.gov is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s flagship nutrition-education platform, designed to help Americans make healthier food choices. The site provides personalized nutrition guidance, dietary recommendations, and meal-planning tools that are used by millions of people across a wide range of devices, contexts, and accessibility needs.

Approach

One Dynamic supported the platform’s development and ongoing maintenance using SAFe Agile practices, delivering iterative improvements rather than large-batch releases. The work emphasized responsive design across the device profiles the platform’s audience actually uses, Section 508 accessibility compliance as a baseline rather than a final gate, content management enhancements to reduce the friction of keeping the platform’s nutrition guidance current, and performance optimization tuned for the periodic traffic spikes the site experiences around public-facing campaigns.

Impact

The platform serves millions of Americans with personalized nutrition guidance and supporting tools. The engineering work — high availability, accessibility compliance, and scalability for peak traffic — is what makes that audience reach possible at the consistency the program’s mission requires.

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