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FWD50 2023

Andrea Hill (16)

"what's the cost of trusting people? Worst case scenario, a sick person gets health care" - @marthaedwards #fwd50 🔥

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Anita Anand mentions there are 30,000 vacancies for digital jobs in the GC. As a former GC-er who moved to the provincial ps, wonder how much flight there has been to other jurisdictions, and if there's any good learnings there... #fwd50

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@sboots saying Sean Boots things at #fwd50.
As IT modernization/transformation project costs start skyrocketing, the "transformational" pieces - the part that make services better for users - are the first to get cut. So we end up with expensive products that are only slightly less fragile than what we had before (but not necessarily delivering services better)

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How do we move from directives to dialog? Trusting people to solve the problem in the best way they know how - Great talk by @pahlkadot about not just staying in your lane #fwd50

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In digital, we pay a transformation tax.
That's it. that's the tweet #fwd50

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"Governments that abandon an 80-year old lonely man don't deserve our trust" - @acroll #fwd50 [abt blindly following scripts/process and notlearning from/ responding to the impact on real people]

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Government code is littered with comments of "I didn't have the opportunity to get the policy intent clarified, so I made my best guess during implementation". - Jennifer Pahlka, #FWD50 Teams need to be working cross-functionally. Can't just throw business reqts/policy statements over the fence at developers and expect good results

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@sboots makes the case that developers working in the open opens things up to scrutiny. This can result in better outcomes. #fwd50
Does this also help establish trust? Developers productivity is literally out there for the public to observe. Certainly we dont want ppl to feel monitored/surveilled, but possibly some sort of public accountability/progress can be beneficial?

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.@acroll referencing salmon ladders in his morning #fwd50 talk. The concrete salmon ladders down the street from my house in BC were recently removed - they'd been thrown up decades ago, and were recently replaced with a more natural envt. Extra metaphor?!

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Great Q in the #fwd50 chat about how we replace tech but culture is more resistant to change. Makes me think about pace layers -

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