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  "headline": " All We Do Is Win Win Win",
  "description": "The President issued a challenge to make technology work for government. We won it.",
  "datePublished": "2015-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
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    "name": "Neil Chaudhuri",
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  "articleBody": "I have written quite a bit recently about my longstanding passion for improving the way government procures\ntechnology and manages technology projects. The administration has taken\nmany significant steps toward that goal,\nand I have played a small role in the process to this point.\n\nBut that role is about to get [a lot bigger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvqJ1mTkEuY).\n\nThe\n[Office of Management and Budget](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb) (OMB)--the largest office\nwithin the Executive Office of the President of the United States--\n[challenged](https://www.challenge.gov/challenge/digital-service-contracting-professional-training-and-development-program-challenge-2/)\nus to improve how government \"builds and buys digital services.\" This Digital Service Contracting Professional Training and Development Program Challenge\nhad three phases:\n\n- **Phase I:** White paper describing the concept for a training and development program for federal acquisition professionals\n- **Phase II:** Documentation detailing the program design, oral presentation, and mock classroom training to a panel of senior federal leaders\n- **Phase III:** Pilot for the program delivered to a cohort of ~30 students over several months\n\n*Vidya was part of the team that won this challenge.*\n\nWe partnered with ASI Government to complement their government acquisition expertise with our expertise in technology and\nthe art of software engineering to provide a unique, adaptive curriculum designed to meet the needs of a diverse cohort.\nAt the heart of our approach is what we call \"agile learning.\" 60% of the curriculum is fixed, but the remaining 40% is adapted\nto the needs of the students as identified with a pre-assessment and to whatever course corrections may be necessary over the\ncourse of the six releases.\n\nI will have input into all the releases--including the capstone in Release 6, but I will be the lead for Release 5, which introduces technology\nconcepts like APIs and cloud computing along with software engineering concepts like version control and agile software\ndevelopment. However, the goal isn't to turn government acquisition professionals into the cast of\n[The Big Bang Theory](http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/). The goal is to provide these professionals with just enough\nknowledge of technology and software engineering to know what they're buying and therefore design contracts in such a way as to\nmotivate vendors to provide tangible, measurable value every day. Hopefully also the students will\nserve as evangelists upon returning to their agencies so they can disseminate the principles in our curriculum\namong their peers in government.\n\nThis is [kind of a big deal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8OxKx6zKkQ). The curriculum we are developing with our partners\nfor the Phase III pilot will revolutionize government contracting and yield unprecedented value for American taxpayers.\nBut it won't be easy. The pilot is already well underway, and the team will continue to work very hard to deliver on this promise.\nMany challenges lie ahead.\n\nStill, I want to take stock and savor this opportunity. It feels so great to [win](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12IeS7BDoo)."
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