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Now I don't think GDS walk on water, but their work really is much better than how things normally get done in the civil service. The press focussed on, "This
by conjectures 10y ago
Now I don't think GDS walk on water, but their work really is much better than how things normally get done in the civil service.
The press focussed on, "This bureaucrat paid market rate for in-demand skills! Disgusting!" Rather than, "In house experts save tax payer being ripped off again!"
- noir_lord 10y agoExactly, they aren't perfect (nothing is) but the work they've done by government standards is incredible and by commercial standards very good. They also worked really hard to get government departments to buy-in to modernising with some success. Current government is gutting them though.
- dasil003 10y agoThat is so depressing. I lived in London from 2011 through 2014, previously having no clue about GDS or anything else in the UK for that matter. Being a ruby developer, it kind of blew me away when I met so many GDS developers and saw what they were doing. They were operating like a top-tier commercial agency much moreso than anything that resembles government in my mind (and I'm half-brazilian, so US government to me is far from the worst in terms of inefficiency and boondoggles). Next thing you know they stop letting the non-white people in, and before you know it Berlin leapfrogs London as the primary tech destination in Europe.
- noir_lord 10y agoBut if you have an effective in house team you can't give the work to your dodgy mates/ benefactors... The UK has very civilised corruption.