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Why Government IT Projects Keep Failing
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the alarming rate of failure in federal IT projects, from the Healthcare.gov launch disaster to the FBI's virtual case file system that wasted over a billion dollars. They explore why the government's procurement process, risk aversion, and lack of agile development lead to chronic overruns and underdelivery. With a focus on the GAO's high-risk list and the new AI mandates, they ask whether the government can ever modernize its technology. Lucas shares a specific example of a small agency that successfully adopted an iterative approach…
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