Jun 29, 2017Thanks to all those behind the digital government movement…This week, I officially joined Skylight, a new digital government consultancy. For the past four years, as part of the Presidential Innovation Fellows and 18F, I had the incredible fortune of working at the center of the federal government’s digital movement. Up until then, I had worked in and around…Government2 min readGovernment2 min read
Jan 24, 2017A Model for Agile Share-in-Savings— by Chris Cairns and Robert L. Read, PhD This is the final post in a four-part series. In the first post, we laid out the case for why the federal government should consider revisiting the practice of share-in-savings (SiS) contracting as a necessary means to deal with their legacy…Government25 min readGovernment25 min read
Jan 17, 2017Ideas for Overcoming the Federal Government’s Challenges with IT Share-in-Savings Contracting— by Chris Cairns and Robert L. Read, PhD This is the third post in a four-part series. In the first post, we laid out reasons for why the federal government should consider revisiting share-in-savings (SiS) contracting as a means to modernize their legacy information technology (IT) systems. In the…Government13 min readGovernment13 min read
Dec 22, 2016A Brief History of IT Share-in-Savings Contracting in the Federal Government— by Chris Cairns and Robert L. Read, PhD This is the second post in a four-part series. In our last post, we laid out the case for why the federal government should consider revisiting the practice of share-in-savings (SiS) contracting in order to deal with their legacy-systems crisis. …Government4 min readGovernment4 min read
Dec 21, 2016Bootstrapping the Modernization of Federal Legacy Systems through Agile Share-in-Savings Contracting— by Chris Cairns and Robert L. Read, PhD This is the first post in a four-part series. “Simply put, the missions of government cannot be achieved if only traditional contract methods are used. There is not enough in the budget to make that happen.” — Larry Allen I’ll start…Government4 min readGovernment4 min read
