The downvotes are no surprise. It's illegal so say anything negative about them, didn't you know? Personally, I agree with you. I've had some experience of the

The downvotes are no surprise. It's illegal so say anything negative about them, didn't you know? Personally, I agree with you. I've had some experience of them, and was shocked by the general level of inexperience (they build web sites, with virtually no enterprise experience), the unwavering and dogmatic commitment to agile and open source (don't misunderstand me - both are good things but there are times where it just! doesn't! make! sense!), and the lack of security understanding. UK government security in general has always been compliance-oriented. Want to run a system at a particular sensitivity level? Implement this checklist of controls. Security should be risk-based, and that doesn't happen. Not even at gov.uk. Some of their exemplar projects have been running since 2011 and still aren't complete. But they're being heralded as poster-children of agile. So spin isn't limited to Whitehall... The team is talented, without a doubt. It would be nice to see it mature.