When you consider that much of what ails government today is the use of custom development at high cost when a commodity product is readily and cheaply available
The Tyranny of Agile
Jennifer Pahlka
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To me, this is an extremely important point. Custom development is not only hard to build but really hard to maintain long-term. To me, key is to leverage modern SaaS technologies for the core processes & build capabilities to integrate tools as well as capacity to negotiate with vendors (and ability to move if needed).