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I think one piece of context that's possibly missing from these GOV.UK stories is how long the people involved have been working to get into the good position t

I think one piece of context that's possibly missing from these GOV.UK stories is how long the people involved have been working to get into the good position they are in now. I remember going to a talk (probably at XPDay in London) about 5 years ago and being impressed by the huge amount of organisational work they had done already. They were saying that they were expecting really good results in the years ahead, but that it was a massive challenge to solve all of the people problems up front. If any of the GDS team are reading, I'd love to see some more blog posts about how the non-technical hurdles were overcome.

maxxxxx 8y ago
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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- toyg 8y ago
  Yes, GDS have plenty of full-time employees - actual geeks, not just managers.
  - maxxxxx 8y ago
    "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.
Digit-Al 8y ago
Do you know about the official GDS blog? https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ https://gds.blog.gov.uk/