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,

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