  Digitalization is conquering and stressing out the federal administration.
Using selected large-scale ICT projects, we show how complex and
interdisciplinary the tasks are. The federal administration's IT strategy
requires well-trained specialists for all defined fields of action. This scarce
resource is increasingly being trained academically in separate, tailor-made
degree courses that are developed specifically for the needs of the German
ministries and authorities. We use the example of administrative informatics
courses to explain their necessity and success story. Using a
Bachelor's/Master's program developed by the authors for the ITZBund and the
Federal Ministry of Finance, we look at a concrete implementation and justify
two of our design decisions in the development of the course, namely
transdisciplinarity and design thinking. We adopt a German perspective
throughout the paper. However, the conclusions also apply to other countries.

Computers and Society;Human-Computer Interaction