‘These dozens of people are strengthening and reinforcing the team we have working 24/7 to address the problems around HealthCare.gov,”
DESPARATION move 101. They are sweating.
The more dozens of people they bring in, the more chaos will ensue; less accountability; just read (as had been posted on numerous threads) the mythical man month. IOW adding more people to a late software project makes it later.
All these experts will have a take on what is wrong and how to fix it. Which will be believed? all of them? none of them?
You can’t fix a software debacle with a committee. You can only fix it (if at all) with someone in charge of the development teams — some ONE. Along with someone from the user / functional end who can deliver understandable, logical requirements.
They are building a tower of Babel; there are no firm, logical, understandable requirements. All the experts in the world can’t fix that. ONE expert could, with the proper requirements, which are sadly lacking, and still changing.
The Titanic at least was an engineered system, a hunk of steel. This is a web of complex uncertainty which cannot be reduced to code.
OK they might manage a passable user interface, to fool the public into thinking there is a system behind the facade that actually works. So far they cannot even do that.
The system that Sebelius during her testimony, refused to shut down for security reasons, was down as she promised she would not shut it down.
Just saying.
Is there any way the website could ever be made safe from hackers? Why would anyone ever put their personal information on this mess?