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I also think I've also replied this to you before, but +1 for the GAO report! I use the full report as my personal model yardstick on how I document technical d
by nxobject 16d ago
I also think I've also replied this to you before, but +1 for the GAO report! I use the full report as my personal model yardstick on how I document technical decisions/issues for non-technical people. The PDF is attached here:
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-106918.pdf https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-106918.pdf
- pjc50 16d agoPeople like to be dismissive about civil servants without looking at how much extremely high quality work is actually produced on complex subjects. Personally having interacted with them a couple of times I'm also a fan of the UK Parliamentary briefings: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ (unfortunately they can't make people read the briefings ..)
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- noir_lord 15d agoUsual problem, people don't understand what they do so they undervalue what they do or think it is "simple" - almost nothing involving millions of people and their interests is ever "simple". I get somewhat annoyed when people blanket attack Whitehall (the UK Civil Service) universally i.e. the bureaucracy, yes they have problems but you don't run a country with 70 million people without some bureaucracy and ripping apart a system that has worked for centuries means throwing out a lot of good with the "bad".