Showing posts with label IT systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IT systems. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

"Aging Software"?--Tufekci Is Wrong?

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NYTimes columnist Tufekci had a piece   discussing Southwest Airlines problems in managing their airplanes and personnel.  I just looked it ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

The Lessons of Fairfax Scools

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 As I understand it, the Fairfax school system had problems with remote learning back in the spring for two reasons--using older software (B...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Loren Becker Is Happy

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As I've said, I've been lurking in the FSA Facebook group, watching the exchanges of hints, encouragements, etc. as the field office...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

How To Do Big IT Projects

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FCW has a post on how to do big IT projects, referring back to a study of 5 years ago.    There are four keys listed, but I can boil it dow...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

FSA Reorganization

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I found two new notices from FSA interesting: One was a reorganization into S afety Net and Program Delivery Divisions.   If I understand ...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

USDA and FSA IT

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The USDA CIO's office has a blog post touting their work towards "dashboards" consolidating access to data across the USDA. ...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

USDA a "Lighthouse Agency"

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That's from this FCW piece on some GSA IT contract awards: "The awards support the first phase of work at five IT Modernization...
Friday, December 16, 2016

The Dream of Online Access to USDA Operations

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In 1992 we had the dream of permitting farmers online access to ASCS, SCS, Farmers Home applications.  In the initial Infoshare pilot we fou...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

One Stop Shopping for Government Services

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FCW has Steve Kelman's piece on a one-stop shop in China: Some 20 different agencies are represented in the center. Lots of the work ...
Wednesday, July 06, 2016

FBI and Sentinel

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I recall writing about the FBI's case management project back in the day.  Apparently they've learned some lessons on how to develop...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

SSNs and VA

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FCW describes a bill to force the VA to stop using SSN's.  On this weekend I want to pat myself on my back--the SCIMs data design was in...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Why Don't IT Contractors Fail?

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Just finished reading The Confidence Game ,--anyone who enjoyed The Sting and the David Mamet film House of Games (which inspired the book)...
Friday, March 04, 2016

The Paperless Office Redux

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John Quiggin at Crooked Timber discusses a paper of his that says we've reached peak paper. I remember in 1984 when the IT guys were ...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Request for Information on Acreage Reporting

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USDA is: investigating the use of a commercially available service to provide a reporting system to support Farm Service Agency (FSA) an...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Customer Self-Service Portal

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FSA Notice CM-778 covers the release of the Customer Self-Service Portal, which permits FSA producers access to see (and print some) of the...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Why Didn't We Do a Joint Legacy Viewer

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DOD and VA have had problems integrating their health care IT systems.  Now they've focused on a " Joint Legacy Viewer ", whic...
Saturday, August 01, 2015

Good Data Modeling Is Important--MP3s

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I was usually ambivalent about the IT contractors working for ASCS/FSA. On the one hand I always thought I we could do the job better and f...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

What's Wrong With the Auditors?

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The old question, from the Roman poet Juvenal, is:  " quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?" Earlier I posted about the new OIG repor...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

OIG on MIDAS

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OIG released an audit report on MIDAS last month. Hat tip to this post from the Capital Press which represents what the media might make...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Receipt for Service II

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I've got a problem with the Receipt for Service implementation. Just in terms of bureaucracy and system design, county employees are as...