Good points! I agree it's probably difficult to find the right thing to focus a challenge on. That said, the tech challenges that are already happening are presumably much smaller in scope than the relevant contracts/projects for which they're being used to evaluate potential vendors, so they are already using this sample as a demonstrat…
Good points! I agree it's probably difficult to find the right thing to focus a challenge on. That said, the tech challenges that are already happening are presumably much smaller in scope than the relevant contracts/projects for which they're being used to evaluate potential vendors, so they are already using this sample as a demonstration of abilities for a wider scope. In a way, it's analogous to how many companies hiring new staff will use a take-home assignment to gauge the candidates' abilities, even though the actual scope of the job will of course be larger.
One thing that might help is having a multi-part challenge in which candidate firms can demonstrate their abilities across several different example challenges.
Good points! I agree it's probably difficult to find the right thing to focus a challenge on. That said, the tech challenges that are already happening are presumably much smaller in scope than the relevant contracts/projects for which they're being used to evaluate potential vendors, so they are already using this sample as a demonstration of abilities for a wider scope. In a way, it's analogous to how many companies hiring new staff will use a take-home assignment to gauge the candidates' abilities, even though the actual scope of the job will of course be larger.
One thing that might help is having a multi-part challenge in which candidate firms can demonstrate their abilities across several different example challenges.