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Comments on: They Just Don’t Get IT https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/12/28/they-just-dont-get-it/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/12/28/they-just-dont-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-41763 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:59:59 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=7200#comment-41763 The problem is that governments are outsourcing all of their IT projects and don’t have anyone who understands how to write specifications or truly evaluate the bids beyond price. Most of the problems with government systems are data entry errors that can be validated on input, or batch mode, but the people in charge don’t know about it.

I have used the USPS stuff since it was available on 9-track tape back when they introduced the Plus4 for ZIP codes. The renewal notice, upon closer inspection, was mailed by an outside vendor who obviously has the software in place and converted the address to the USPS standard and added the postal bar code to get the best postage rate. The savings for doing this is the profit margin for mailers.

Without in house IT people the government doesn’t know what’s possible and has no way of really knowing if what they got is what they needed.

]]> By: fallenmonk https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/12/28/they-just-dont-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-41759 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:46:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=7200#comment-41759 It makes it so much more frustrating when you know how easy it is to get it right. The thing that amazes me is that these issues have been solved over and over again in private industry but for some reason government wants to reinvent the wheel every time the do some project like this.
You would think that some of the people working on the project had actually used an application like Google Maps.

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