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Ron Bronson
@ronbronson.com

I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week. You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about

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SteveG
@trenchdiggr.bsky.social

I've been an IT services contractor to the Fed Govt. There was a time when Fed contracting shops were pressured to require agile delivery in their contracts, but they had no idea how to structure an agile contract. Bad agile contracts cost the govt millions. 18F's Federal Field guide helped fix it!

Tom
@alttag.bsky.social

The govt still can’t get data rights and data access rights properly in contracts. And vendors are pulling shenanigans to gatekeep access to the govt’s own data.

Elliott F
@elliottnotet.bsky.social

We used some of your guides back when I was doing web dev for Healthcare and Education sites. It's so depressing what those Musk cronies are doing. But I'm glad that at least for now the content seems to still be available on GitHub github.com/18F/guides

github.comGitHub - 18F/guides: 18F’s guides equip 18F teams, our partners, other practitioners, lawmakers, and the public with tools and practices to improve public services. They affirm experiences, build conf...18F’s guides equip 18F teams, our partners, other practitioners, lawmakers, and the public with tools and practices to improve public services. They affirm experiences, build confidence, and empowe...
Ron Bronson
@ronbronson.com

I'll also add that without all the agency staff clearing that path to make it possible for me to help them, there's just no way this would've worked out. It wasn't me, right? There were like 20+ different people aligning across silos. A conductor w/o an orchestra is just a goof waving their arms