Tag: procurement
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you have to go all in on agile, or you’ll hit the accountability paradox buzzsaw
A UK MoD medical IT programme failed for a decade under waterfall, restarted on SAFe in 2015, and now hits nine of ten deliverables on budget. The obstacle was never central government, which mandates Agile, but the department’s own procurement policy, business-case approval and accountability machinery. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Institutional challenges in agile adoption:…
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How to find waste with the robot
My first law of enterprise AI: if you end up having two robots talk with each other to complete a task, that task was bullshit in the first place, and you should probably eliminate it rather than automate it. For example, if AI is used in both sides of B2B procurement (enterprise software sales), then…
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Fixing government procurement one process at a time
Part of the problem, according to the General Services Administration’s Bill Zielinski, is that many agencies still try to scope out modernization projects with highly specific technical requirements. “We define not only the business outcome that we’re trying to achieve,” Zielinski said at the FCW-hosted IT modernization event, “but we have that tendency to say,…
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