[PLUG] OT - State of Oregon tech infrastructure?

[Stafford Rau]

I don't work for the state, but rather I'm a network engineer at Clackamas
County. My personal experience working with the State of Oregon is that
their IT functions are rather decentralized, with different organizations
within the State having their own IT support groups. It can be difficult to
figure out which group you need to be talking to. Clackamas County
(thankfully, in my opinion) has a much more centralized Technology Services
organization, more so than even the other counties with whom I've worked.

However, as a network engineer, I'm totally going to blame the applications
people for those big awful projects. ;-)

--Stafford

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:03 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Mike C. wrote:
>
> > I don't watch the local nightly news on tv, but a non-tech friend who
> does
> > told me that due to the archaic state of Oregon's hw & sw, we're the last
> > state in the country to distribute government relief funds to people.
>
> Mike,
>
> Check out www.oregonlive.com/ on the Web.
>
> > I recall when OHP first opened enrollment and servers crashed and people
> > couldn't apply. I'm hearing a similar story that people are experiencing
> a
> > lot of delay and problems with filing and processing their claims for all
> > kinds of government assistance.
> >
> > I'm curious if anyone is close to this or has done IT work for the state
> > before and can speak about this. Maybe there's an Oregonian tech blogger
> > who writes about current state of tech affairs in Oregon's gov't?
>
> Not me, but one of the problems (and Portland suffered delays and cost
> overruns with the Water Bureau's systems) is the agency changing
> requirements while the new application is being developed. This is
> apparently pretty common.
>
> I suspect that large businesses suffer the same way but don't publicize it
> because it makes management look bad to investors.
>
> Stay well,
>
> Rich
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