Re:How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov
by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 09, 2015 @03:34PM
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> Government can also work differently. The folks at 18F and the US Digital Service are demonstrating that in ways both large and small. Indeed, when I was looking at a USDS job, a White House advisor told me plainly that agile, iterative approaches were clearly better for government because they were much more effective at risk reduction than producing piles of documents ever could be.
Is there a reason you didn't take the USDS job?
> Start-up culture and tech trends just don't work at the scale of government, for much the same reasons massive corporations move glacially.
This is good example of an old truth that needs some unlearning. Old corporations move glacially. Some new ones work differently, though.
Government can also work differently. The folks at 18F and the US Digital Service are demonstrating that in ways both large and small. Indeed, when I was looking at a USDS job, a White House advisor told me plainly that agile, iterative approaches were clearly better for government because they were much more effective at risk reduction than producing piles of documents ever could be.