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Booz Allen lunch

Today a few of us attended a Booz Allen lunch, sponsored by AIGA and the DX team.

  • Booz has soft launched a wonderful site: recreation.gov. This lunch was a chance for the younger team members to present their work and explain the project.

    The presenters were underwhelming. The director had a microphone and continued to whisper her explanations. The junior staff was non-enthusiastic. They talked a bit about the amount of work, but not about the target: the website visitor.
  • They described four interesting topics: 
    • Carbon Design System
    • Microservices
    • Atomic web design
    • 1-week sprints

  • My Booz friends are gushing about it on LinkedIn. Perhaps the biggest accomplishment is scraping databases across NOAA, Smithsonian, National Park Service and Feds. Incredible undertaking.
  • Another terrific site: usaspending.gov

  • Takeaways
  • If  you're going to have your people lead a presentation:
    • Wear a branded shirt
    • Speak up
    • Be exuberant
    • Know more than just their stuff.
      Two young speakers wouldn't answer questions outside their area. Example: What is the success metric of the DOT site? Uh, Not upsetting present users?  


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