"Your team's advice carries more weight than an external consultant" is a sentiment I heard from agency partners on a regular basis. They knew we had their best interests, rather than self-interest, in mind when we made a recommendation. 3/
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Despite much gnashing of teeth from the govt consulting class at first 18F never desired, was never in a position to, compete with private industry to any meaningful degree. There was too much work to be done! Our aim was to help agencies become better at buying and building digital services. 4/
18F was also massively effective in seeding its alums throughout not only other federal government agencies, but state and local agencies too. And also in -- you guessed it -- digital service consultancies like the many companies that comprise the https://digitalservicescoalition.org 5/
Thank you. Forgive me if somebody has already asked this, but is the team or are team members pursuing legal options? That way a record will be established that not even the most skilled Chekist can erase.
Thank you all of the former 18F team members. Your example of improving collaboration across the organizational silos inspired a lot wider than only in the U.S. itself. Several other countries did setup similar teams to improve public sector services, across the organizations. Your impact was big.
As a government IT contractor I had a number of good collaborations with 18F. As you say, there is way too much work to be done in improving government services and a lot of what 18F did was foundational to making all government IT (and services) work better.
If the 18F starts a private consultation firm and it is the same people as before then nothing changes - your advice would be the same would it not? If, we assume, you are serving the same agencies.
That is assuming there would be any internal gov staff that do what you do. Of course they would have different incentives - internal staff have no need for profitability as their accountability measure, or far less so than private firm.
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18F is dead. Long live 18F. https://bsky.app/profile/team18f.bsky.social/post/3lje3qf3vu42t
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