Reminds me a bit of how New York's MTA handled realtime arrival information for their bus system[1]. Rather than bringing on an external company with a (typical

Reminds me a bit of how New York's MTA handled realtime arrival information for their bus system[1]. Rather than bringing on an external company with a (typically) large contract, they hired a small team of tech-savvy MIT grads full-time to manage the project more like a startup. The MTA gave them a small budget (at least, relative to other MTA projects) and limited the scope to what the team could actually accomplish. The team itself was in charge of designing the system and bringing on specialists/contractors where necessary. What's notable is that the project accomplished more in the span of a few months than what many of MTA's major contracts accomplish in years. [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-dont-we-know-where-all-the-trains-are/415152/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-do...