Posted on 11/16/2013 7:11:55 AM PST by Lazamataz
Per the Obamacare Web Disaster: Many of you know I develop websites just like this for a living. It's what I do.
I am here to tell you, given three years that they were given, if I had the following team: One artistic Design person, One skilled DBA, one skilled Security guy, one Web/Data integration specialist, three skilled developers (2 on .NET and one on jQuery), one Business Analyst who knew the legislation, and one Policies and Procedures person (for the ATO and C&A certifications and documentation) and me as Architect, I could have had this thing deployable and humming along on Oct 1.
Yes, the scope would be larger because of the multiformat data exchanges with other Federal agencies..... but that is why I assigned one guy for Web/Data Integration. He'd have three years, and I would ALSO take this strategic move:
I would launch a web service, secured, where they could both retrieve and deliver data. THEY would need to meet MY interface requirements. Thusly I would leverage their people, costing us less. My Web/Data Integration specialist would then only have the task of retrieving the data from the secure web service repository, and shuffle it where it needs to go.
I could have done with with 10 good people. See, I've DONE systems of this complexity before. My estimate of man-years is accurate. We'd have 30 man-years, plenty of labor necessary to accomplish this.
10 people. Let me re-emphasize that.
10 people.
That's it.
I would not have charged 300 million, I would have charged 12 million -- maybe even 15!.... and we would have all gotten EXTREMELY wealthy on it.
This does not include hardware and the people to set that up. Figure 20 million for that.
Because this Obamacare website is such an ongoing disaster, I am compelled to creativity.
I HEREBY COIN THE TERM:
"FUSTERCLICK" (c)
People should join the Laz ping list. :)
Yes, they should. I'm already on. I was on when the "satisfied customers" were only in the double digits. (Let's see where did I put that receipt with my number on it?)
BUMP (thanks Laz)
Ah.... those were the days.....
Your numbers are fine, within the assumptions you make, which is a marginally competent customer who actually wants the thing built correctly.
Problem is, some of the biggest factors in the disaster were that HHS kept changing the regulations and requirements, provided no realistic statement of work or concept of operations, and proactively suppressed necessary technical detail to avoid any “leaks” of it to program critics.
So, your team would still have failed. Just a lot less spectacularly, most likely.
I have a 9 month requirements-nailing-down phase (see the thread body for that). In the contract, I would build in the clause that they have 9 months to work with us to have a Business Requirement and a Tech Spec put together. Fail, and we get paid and walk from the project.
Ping!
Very nice, excellent. :-)
Yes, and that's further proof that they are not only incompetent but evil.
There was absolutely no need to require an applicant to identify himself merely to review the choices.
Excellent. Excellent.
I have zero to do with computer programming. I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express either, but it seems to me that the government website should not have even been necessary.
A page on the existing HHS website listing the Ins. Companies participating, and their contact info, and maybe a link to the Ins. Company’s website is all that should have been necessary.
The major insurers already have websites. They didn’t need a stinkin’ government website.
What would that have cost? Very little comparitively speaking I am sure. Cluster Click? You betcha.
However, such an approach would've left the insurance company websites in control of the portal to Obamacare.
When you're objective is total control, you're not interested in farming anything out.
However, such an approach would’ve left the insurance company websites in control of the portal to Obamacare.
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Exactly. We don’t need no stinkin government website and their maniacal desire to have total control over the “little” people is neither needed nor appreciated.
In which case, we don't need Obamacare in the first place. Which makes who runs the website academic...
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