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No, NYC couldn't have created a small, crack team for several reasons: 1) Government Software jobs pay less than civilian. It can take up to 6 months of paper

No, NYC couldn't have created a small, crack team for several reasons: 1) Government Software jobs pay less than civilian. It can take up to 6 months of paperwork to hire someone. While that paperwork is in process the job applicant must wait and can't be hired. Guess what kind of developers the government gets? 2) Requirements, they've never heard of them (sarcasm.) My last project had the language changed 3 times, went from a plug-in to a stand-alone app to an API, and during the 4 years had 3 different "final" decision makers. Feature creep was more like feature tidal wave. 3) Paperwork. There's massive amounts of it. One of my coworkers spent 1 month writing paperwork for 10 lines of code. I could go on but the government does everything in its power to interfere with rapid development and then wonders why costs overrun.

cma 17y ago
> 1) Government Software jobs pay less than civilian. It can take up to 6 months of paperwork to hire someone. While that paperwork is in process the job applicant must wait and can't be hired. Guess what kind of developers the government gets? Which New York City law mandates this? (not doubting that there may be one) Hiring someone for the New York City government can take up to 6 months? What is it typically? (which is the only thing we should care about here without reason to believe it would be atypical) >3) Paperwork. There's massive amounts of it. One of my coworkers spent 1 month writing paperwork for 10 lines of code. Do you guys work for the city government in NYC? Somewhere comparable?