Riding the inflection point: A digital journey
summary
Government digital team starts with seven coders and scales to a 40–50 person engineering unit, adopts Ruby on Rails, pushes a cloud policy after 3.5 years, and builds front-to-back integrations that replace multi-year SI projects. Rapid COVID outputs include TraceTogether in seven weeks, SafeEntry in three weeks, and a token designed in five weeks. Platform work, SRE/DevOps and a developers portal with 100 products drive reuse and faster delivery.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 2:23Riding the Inflection Point
- 9:13Why Do We Ever Have To Grow Up
- 11:43Supply Limitation
- 13:38Platform Accelerators
- 14:26Lesson Number One Adopt a Reduction Mindset
- 16:33Build Accelerators
- 21:00Product Management
- 22:11The Product Success Culture
- 22:27When Do You Kill a Product
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