Posted on 10/24/2013 8:36:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This could get interesting, if our quisling Congress would do something about it.
Will they do anything....no. they are all cowards!
Full blown Cluster-F***
The head honcho at CMS testifying today is an affirmative action hire. This could possibly be a recurrent thread in the tangled debris of ObamaCare. Were any of these people qualified to be in charge of 19% of the U.S. economy? They certainly can’t answer any questions pertaining to this monstrous project.
“Thanks to the logjam in account creation, the contractor responsible for dealing with paper applications has seen an unexpected boost in demand. The problem is that the contractor, Serco, has to use the same back-end system as Healthcare.gov to register those applicants — and that doesn’t work, either.”
He said he has two states that are not operational yet.
Why not???
Having spent years in the Air Force dealing with contracts and contractors (on both sides)....I can say that the minute you split up a contractor and have more than one company providing the work for the tasks....it’s 99-percent or better that things will be screwed up unless the gov’t guy stands there and jerks everyone’s chains on a hourly basis. That’s the only way it works. I’d strongly suggest that one contract is for one company only, it lessens the pain involved.
ooooohhhh.... that’s one thing, as a government contractor, you DON’T do.
No, you’re not expected to succeed, but you’re definitely not allowed to blame the gov’t for it.
LOVE THIS!!! loving this. Extra large slice of Schadenfreude cream pie!!
The IRS is going to be occupied auditing the tax records of about 40 contractors, and their management.
MacAfee says it is unfixable. Throw it out and start over. Obama and friends should go to prison.
Were these no-bid contracts?
yes - a 22k campaign donation netted a $200 million no-bid contract.
Sweet ROI, don’t ya think?
There are concepts like "PRIME contractor" and
Project Management with deliverable "Milestones"
From the Book : The MYTHICAL MAN-MONTH
“adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”.
This idea is known as Brooks’ law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.
Brooks’ observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later conclude had, counter-intuitively, delayed the project even further. He also made the mistake of asserting that one project — writing an ALGOL compiler — would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (it required longer). The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called “The Bible of Software Engineering”, because “everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.”
The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering. People clearly have not learned from history.
The corollary of Brooks’s Law is that there is an incremental person who, when added to a project, makes it take more, not less time. Brooks adds that “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month”.
Absolute "Affirmative Action" Idiot speak !
geez, I thought only the evil Halliburton got those.
“One reason for the logjam, he suggested, is that the administration made “a late decision requiring consumers to register for an account before they could browse for insurance products.””
Now.... why would they do that ?
How about SIGNING UP ONE TEST USER TO SEE IF IT WILL WORK?
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