{"id":373,"date":"2024-03-12T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:44:10","slug":"the-rotten-state-will-dunn-new-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/the-rotten-state-will-dunn-new-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Rotten State\u201d &#8211; Will Dunn (New Statesman)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSenior civil servants are \u201cwho you dream of, if you\u2019re a vendor\u201d; they may be exceptionally bright people with Oxbridge firsts who have completed their training at the Major Projects Leadership Academy, but in practice they have never worked in the industry with which they are negotiating. More fundamentally, civil servants do not understand that the other side is designing its bid to arrive at what project managers call the OFM (Oh, F**k Moment), when a new set of costs suddenly appears. The engineers have found that they\u2019ll have to drill through granite to build the tunnel, or the data scientists have found errors in the old system. \u201cAs long as you can find things which weren\u2019t covered in the original contract,\u201d they told me, \u201cyou\u2019ve opened the door to expanding the scope and demanding more money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/uk-politics\/2024\/01\/the-rotten-state\">https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/uk-politics\/2024\/01\/the-rotten-state<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSenior civil servants are \u201cwho you dream of, if you\u2019re a vendor\u201d; they may be exceptionally bright people with Oxbridge firsts who have completed their training at the Major Projects Leadership Academy, but in practice they have never worked in the industry with which they are negotiating. More fundamentally, civil servants do not understand that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}