How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network

Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by kelnos on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:48PM (#14674033)

What also concerns me about that is maintenance. You're constantly bringing in new people to build new things who have no knowledge of what people in previous "tours" built. The overheard of all the handoffs and knowledge transfers that needs to happen seems unfortunately high.

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Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by dkhenry on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:52PM (#14674599)

While the USDS does build things, the model is to have them partner with career civil servants and contractors and get them to implement industry best practices. So there is still overhead when handing off between tours, but the bigger problem is finding capable contractors and vested partners at the agency's who can champion the new way of doing things.

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