Perhaps the recent recommendations by a TechAmerica panel finally will inspire agencies to take a more agile approach to system development, writes FCW blogger (and commission co-chairman) Steve Kelman.
Federal agencies would do themselves a favor if they stopped thinking in terms of requirements and started talking about user needs, writes consultant Ray Kane.
Federal agencies waste a lot of time and money on large government IT projects because they lack the necessary management expertise, writes blogger Steve Kelman.
Government Accountability Office auditors find that half of the 50 largest assessments handed out by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division between fiscal 2005 and 2009 were charged to 20 federal contractors.
Do government IT pros have the expertise to know a good technical idea when the see it? And, even more importantly, can they distinguish between suggestions that are self-serving from those that are in an agency's interest?
A new Defense Department rule that requires service contractors to identify themselves as such could exacerbate existing tensions in the federal workplace.
Blogger Steve Kelman contends vendors should make experts available to provide comments or suggestions on technical or contracting strategy issues during the contract bidding process.
