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Municipal Government Employee here (from a top 15 US city). Municipal & State IT systems (particularly around cyber-security) are atrocious (See Atlanta, Balti

Municipal Government Employee here (from a top 15 US city). Municipal & State IT systems (particularly around cyber-security) are atrocious (See Atlanta, Baltimore Ransomware). Many of our (and our peers') systems are a hodgepodge of paper, excel sheets, legacy systems, and new off the shelf systems. At the end of the day, government maintains a strong role in the operations of cities, counties, and states. For example, our city manages the issuance of more than 250,000 permits annually, a road network of more than 10,000 lane miles, and an annual capital infrastructure budget of nearly $1 billion. There is a very real need for better IT systems that can be customized to meet the needs of differing legacy systems and data structures by municipalities. If our city is any indication of the industry, there is an insane amount of waste and mismanagement that can be attributed to poor/legacy systems or data.

toomuchtodo 7y ago
https://www.senecagov.com/ https://www.senecagov.com/ (no association, just a fan)
yeahitslikethat 7y ago
I've tried so many times to work with government entities. It's a complete mess. It seems the only people who want to fix the problems don't work there or are fine with the problems.
- Slam7min 7y ago
  Yup, we're a hot mess to work with. Challenges: - Procurement rules that require RFP/RFQ to obtain software and limit departments' abilities to get low cost, easy-win solutions. - Older, non-tech savvy workforce - Administrations that focus on high visibility IT projects (to public) without thinking about the not sexy foundational issues that are needed. Also politics. - Siloes between departments that result in many types of systems that don't talk to each other. - There's so much to do within government and so much that can be improved that the people who get things done are often overburdened. We're both understaffed and overstaffed at the same time. (not enough project managers!) - Startups try to sell us solutions on problems that are only a small part of a bigger issue
  - mdorazio 7y ago
    It's kind of sad that the exact same list of issues applies to many Fortune 500 companies I've worked with.

toomuchtodo 7y ago

https://www.senecagov.com/ https://www.senecagov.com/ (no association, just a fan)

yeahitslikethat 7y ago

I've tried so many times to work with government entities. It's a complete mess. It seems the only people who want to fix the problems don't work there or are fine with the problems.

Slam7min 7y ago
Yup, we're a hot mess to work with. Challenges: - Procurement rules that require RFP/RFQ to obtain software and limit departments' abilities to get low cost, easy-win solutions. - Older, non-tech savvy workforce - Administrations that focus on high visibility IT projects (to public) without thinking about the not sexy foundational issues that are needed. Also politics. - Siloes between departments that result in many types of systems that don't talk to each other. - There's so much to do within government and so much that can be improved that the people who get things done are often overburdened. We're both understaffed and overstaffed at the same time. (not enough project managers!) - Startups try to sell us solutions on problems that are only a small part of a bigger issue
- mdorazio 7y ago
  It's kind of sad that the exact same list of issues applies to many Fortune 500 companies I've worked with.