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Re:The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Go... by maxxxxx on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:54PM (#18735035)
I wonder if they have long-time engineering and management staff. It seems to me that a lot of government (and large enterprise) projects fail or are inefficient because they get outsourced to some company that does the work but the organization doesn't really learn anything. Every few years everything starts from scratch.
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Re:The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Go... by toyg on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:14PM (#18736707)
Yes, GDS have plenty of full-time employees - actual geeks, not just managers.
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Re:The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Go... by maxxxxx on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:16PM (#18736715)
"not just managers."

That seems to be the real problem of orgs who do a lot of outsourcing. They have a lot of managers who can't really judge the work and not enough experts.

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