“Department of Veterans Affairs employees are taking it upon themselves to develop tech tools to improve their centers’ business and operations.”
“Through the Light Electronic Action Framework, a VA-developed open source web application, employees from across the country built a range of applications and platforms aimed at improving hiring, business management, and employee training.”
“The idea behind the framework, the code for which has been around for years but has really taken off recently, is to give non-technical, on-the-ground employees the opportunity to address problems at their regional centers…”
“VA Chief Technology Officer Charles Worthington pointed out that a number of the projects sought to solve the similar business process problems, calling the ground-level work to mitigate these management problems “amazing.””
“Particularly when it comes to resource management and keeping track of data on funding and personnel, “it feels like this is a real pain point that everyone has,” he said…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA employees tap open source to solve workflow problems – By Chase Gunter, April 26, 2019. FCW.
