caseflow
ActiveWorkflow
| caseflow | ActiveWorkflow | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 49 | 792 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 10.0 | 4.2 | |
| about 9 hours ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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caseflow
- Backlog at BVA and mass hiring for virtual lawyers
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The most important part of modern government is database management.
Most of the paperwork filed are shipped, scanned, and processed into digitized forms into a system of record known as Veterans Benefit Management System (VBMS) here at the VA. VA Regional Office staffers can then pull the digital records for further processing.
I supported the VBMS team's effort in migrating to a cloud based environment in 2017/2018 and my team help start the Caseflow/Appeals project, a system used to track appeals cases - which relies on VBMS daily. Caseflow is open source as well.
https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow
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The US Digital Services Playbook
These plays can work. Why? Because USDS employees are government employees with escalation paths all the way up to the very top which gives them a lot of power to break down bureaucratic barriers to modern software development that government contractors & consultants would have no chance of doing. They then can bring in contractors to work in the relatively modern shell that they've created.
For example, here's a project started by the USDS in 2015. It's responsible for managing the complex bureaucratic process of VA legal appeals. (https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow) It's open source, continuously integrated and deployed with close to 100% test coverage, deployed on an AWS GovCloud VPC, and was built on a fraction of the budget of similar systems.
Active development on this system is now done primarily by contractors now that the relevant bureaucratic barriers were removed.
How do we scale this story? More talented people with the desire to serve their country.
ActiveWorkflow
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