Go figure that a bunch of guys who have been doing "minimum viable product" for decades can't appreciate the difficulties of getting payments to a 95 year old widow who doesn't use the computer!
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SSA is out there issuing payments to the unbanked! Them and Treasury have been working on that issue since Clinton, if it were easy to solve it would’ve been solved by now.
I’m not saying that the infrastructure devs should turn the gears government but I am saying that we can probably have drinks and lots of sympathetic conversations with the people who do
As a person who works in technology, there are places where waterfall design and project management is appropriate, and govt services are often examples!
I was actually just thinking the same thing. One reason that a lot of agile etc fall flat in gov settings is that it just wasn't the environment it was designed for
The annoying thing is there are a lot of moonshot things the govt can and did fund where agile is a fit. Delivering core services just isn't one of them.
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I was not considered sufficiently positive-thinking on occasion