Working in government is not always like this. I spent about 9 months contracting in the UK's Ministry of Justice > You force developers to use tools designed

Working in government is not always like this. I spent about 9 months contracting in the UK's Ministry of Justice > You force developers to use tools designed for lawyers Nope, we used whatever we wanted to. > You distrust your employees Nope, most people used OS X and had full control over their machine > You tether developers to their desk Nope, there is wifi throughout the building. I actually worked from home a lot, eventually only coming in for sprint planning and retros > You prefer government-specific service providers Nope, we deploy on AWS in prod, and spin up Heroku apps for sharing prototypes > Temporary integration Nope, we run CI on every branch, pull requests are not merged until green. > Sparse delivery Nope, Continuous delivery. Master is always deployable. We deploy whenever we want. > You still see waterfall as a viable option Nope > You don’t place process on a pedestal Nope, use all best practise you'd expect in any modern software shop > You erect a moat between developers and servers Nope, our releases our deployed by CI but we can SSH into any box (via VPN and jump boxes) > New technologies are guilty until proven innocent Nope, use what you want as long as you can justify it, i.e. building a service in brainfuck won't fly > You use open source as a verb Nope, all development done in the open and service source code licensed under MIT > Working in the open is a novelty, not a best practice Nope, see above. We're spending taxpayer money, the software belongs to the taxpayer and we want to be fully accountable. > Speaking at conferences is tightly controlled Nope > Geeks are the bottom of your food chain Nope. Quite frankly the opposite. We have the best equipment in the department, are amongst the best paid, and wear whatever we want to the office where all other stuff seem to be required to wear business dress. > Culture only happens outside of your working hours Nope. As we are spending public money we can hardly have an open bar but we do our best > You measure your hiring process in months Nope, the slowest part of the hiring process is having a background check, which takes a couple of weeks > Onboarding is an afterthought Nope, you're up and running with all your brand new kit and logins on day 1 > Recruitment is unheard of Nope, but the department has largely grown through referrals > You block half the internet Nope, nothing is blocked whatsoever