Posted on 10/16/2013 4:23:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CGI Federal is the Canadian IT contractor responsible for creating most of the ObamaCare website. Tuesday, after describing the site as a "complete train wreck," the Washington Post took an in-depth look at the company -- its origins, track record, and how it landed the ObamaCare contract. It is all worth a read, but one staffer told the Post that the working environment at CGI is so awful today that "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."
The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal's 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. "There's been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility," he said, noting the firm's liberal telework policy. Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. "There's a lot of frustration," the staffer said. "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."
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Good catch. Cronyism always wins out in DC.
Ditto, absolutely.
‘People Fainting In Conference Calls’
Quick, convene a panel to see if they should be resuscitated!
“You know, Harry, it’s getting to be really expensive to pay people to vote Democrat. What with the private sector unions declining, it’s hard for the Democrat party to come up with the money to buy enough votes to win. And I can’t lose! I don’t know how to work!”
“Don’t worry, Nancy. We’ll get the working people to pay to buy our votes.”
“Oh Harry, you always say the sweetest things!”
I’ve been around large software projects in my former career. When they go bad and it becomes an all hands on deck for months on end. They called them “Death Marches”.
This one has them ALL of those combined. Needs a complete redesign, not a bunch of bandaids. People will start quitting there soon, guaranteed.
I think it will end up like Maine’s former “Dirigo”.
Although proponents of the legislation that set up Dirigo Health projected that it could cover 31,000 previously uninsured Maine residents in its first year, the actual figure through the program’s first twelve months was 8,600.[8] After fifteen months, enrollment had grown to 9,800; an additional 4,900 people had enrolled in the Medicaid expansion. Anthem, the initial carrier for DirigoChoice[9], says that enrollment rates for the program are significantly higher than other new insurance programs.
Yup. The best will be the first.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out a lot of the peoblems came from Obama’s people changing their minds and adding new “ideas” along the way. I’m not ready to lay all the blame at CGIs door.
ObamaWare!
My guess is that this is an impossible project. You can be competent but if your client isn’t..
I was an IT professional, asked to be a liaison to the police department to check on the progress of contractors putting together an incident reporting system for patrol cars, near the end of the implementation. Of course, the contractors held everything close to their chest siting confidentiality clauses. They held classes for cops at the police academy for instruction on it's use. I sat in on a class at a computer. Within ten minutes I had gotten around all their security and took control of the system including the servers, all from within their own software screens. They weren't pleased to see all their flaws exposed before they could cut and run. Happened often with contractors, pretending to know what they were doing when they delivered crap.
Yet another software project failure for the textbooks. Stupid, stupid management AND techies.
> Quick, convene a panel to see if they should be resuscitated!
Yeah, schedule a meeting about the difficult meetings.
Our culture is so hosed.
The “under the table payments” to political cronies should be Cruz’ talking points. Someone made a lot of money off this.
CC
The article says that CGI got “$88 million of the hundreds of millions spent to create the ObamaCare website”. Who got the rest?
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