Posts by TechnoSceptic

Spending watchdog: UK.gov must say who will prop up Verify from March 2020. C'mon, you've had six months!

That's what happens when you build a solution that doesn't work to a problem that nobody has

http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-committee/digital-government/written/90141.html

A minister for GDS? Don't talk digital pony

Coupled with Maude & Co scrapping the Government IT Profession in 2013, getting rid of the CIOs and anyone else who might know how to run a complex IT operation, replacing them with people who had once been on an agile awareness day, to make absolutely sure there was no capability left to bring stuff back in house or manage the systems tsunami of Brexit.

...caught up in a row as to whether it should be open source, an in-house build, ... a package

A rerun, then, of CAP-D and Universal Credit. So we know how this is going to end.

Agile consultant behind UK's disastrous Common Platform Programme steps down

Re: Agile and government do not mix

Well, they have to, thanks to Lord Maude & pals, regardless of whether it makes sense or whether anyone knows what they are doing, else they don't get past the Guard Dogs & Sentries: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery/agile-government-services-introduction

Gov's industrial strategy: 'Look, we've changed the words above our door'

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things their proper names"

Allegedly a Chinese proverb based on the writing of Confucious (source: Quora). He seems to have summed things up pretty well (apart from the references to "man"):

"A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect."

Mercedes answers autonomous car moral dilemma: Yeah, we'll just run over pedestrians

Re: Hard decision but Mercedes are probably right

"On the one hand the car will have a perfect record of the event" It will have a record of what the manufacturer's software is programmed to record. How close to reality that is, may be tricky to verify. Oh, hi VW.