Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wa

Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wasn’t supposed to the consequences can be as severe as someone dying because life-necessary data wasn’t available. The only sector which is as focused on security, on-time-delivery and risk-management that we are is banking, which is frankly rather similar to the public sector, except their business focus is much more narrow and they generally have a lot more resources. This is actually part of the reason we try to think about what technology we use and how we use it. We have too many critical systems and too few people, so we need to be extremely efficient in our choices. If something is cool, but adds complexity, then it’s just not worth it. Because we are the public sector we do a lot of benchmarking though, and we actually have ASP WebForms legacy apps that are rated as high as your favourite mobile app by our citizens. Which was my point, your users don’t actually care about your tech-stack when it delivers.