In case it wasn’t clear… while I did think the new BOM website is crap, I was mostly mad at the shitty results the APS gets when it outsources work to the consultancy firms.
20 years ago the govt departments had in-house IT capability. I don’t think it’s a silver bullet, but if they fixed the role definitions so they could pay at market rates for IT staff, they could build and retain an effective IT workforce.
(For anyone not familiar with the problem, IT staff have to move into the ‘Executive Levels’ to get paid at market rates. And then the APS gets shitty that they have teams full of EL1s.)
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