Custom or COTS, either way it’s almost entirely open source software. – Waldo Jaquith
The truth is that nothing is purely custom software, and nothing is purely COTS. There is, instead, a continuum, and it’s a short one.| Waldo Jaquith
Year: 2025| waldo.jaquith.org
The truth is that nothing is purely custom software, and nothing is purely COTS. There is, instead, a continuum, and it’s a short one.| Waldo Jaquith
Scrum-team years give program teams, budgeting, procurement, and oversight a common currency of understanding.| Waldo Jaquith
I've long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.| Waldo Jaquith
In the abstract, independent verification & validation is not a terrible idea. Unfortunately, in reality, it is. But what if it wasn’t?| Waldo Jaquith
Major government software projects fail as a matter of course. Procurement and oversight processes are set up with the reasonable assumption that the projects will fail. So it can be a challenge to get leaders to see the water that they swim in| Waldo Jaquith
Overseeing software project requires replacing memos with demos. Doing that for a few projects is one thing, but a different approach entirely is required to scale that up.| Waldo Jaquith
There are some enormously compelling arguments in favor of agencies preemptively publishing source code, which results in reduced cost, increased trust, and higher-quality results.| Waldo Jaquith
When an agency principal lacks the knowledge to understand and control major software projects, they are handing their control of the agency to some consulting firm's project manager.| Waldo Jaquith
