The White House Now Has A Digital SWAT Team. It aims to prevent future HealthCare.gov disasters.

Readwrite ^ | Aug 11, 2014 | Lauren Orsini

[Innovative]

We needed a new government agency to do this...

[Innovative]

White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/white-house-launches-u-s-digital-service-with-healthcare-gov-fixer-at-the-helm/

“Housing this in the White House gives it a bit of cachet that serving in an agency might lack, but the USDS still is missing the advantage of serving a truly centralized government that its cousin office, Britain’s Government Digital Service, enjoys. “

I smell some serious ulterior motives...

[Crim]

Well maybe they can buy some better hard drives next time....the last crop really sucked...LMAO!

[AlmaKing]

These people will just delete negative posts en masse.

[Objective Scrutator]

Anyone who posts negatively on that website is an idiot, as you’re just giving the Keynesian Kenyan and his goosestepping gangsters your IP address. Criticizing Osamacare runs the risk of meeting an untimely death or asset forfeiture.

[Blue Highway]

big government just keeps on getting bigger.

[driftdiver]

Because $1 billion doesn’t buy you as good of a website as you might think.

A new agency with Congressional involvement, cool.

[Innovative]

“A new agency with Congressional involvement, cool.”

There is NO congressional involvement — where did you get that idea?

They say it’s run out of the White House.

[Innovative]

” Digital Services — which will be housed inside the Office of Management and Budget — will be focused on providing consultation.”

[driftdiver]

Stupid phone. There was supposed to be a “no” before the Congressional involvement.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Can they save emails?

[roadcat]

big government just keeps on getting bigger.

I'm laughing my head off about this announcement. The White House, specifically the president Obummer, can't manage people so he creates a department to manage people. The answer is not bigger government, it's giving clear directions, making sure orders are carried out, and holding people responsible for mistakes and firing them. Obama is an idiot who can't do anything right, so he creates a new department? The answer is to fire Obama!

[SteveH]

This goes against conventional software management wisdom that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, according to The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks. You have to catch the large software problems at the planning, specification and design stages, or pay more money in the end.

[ClearCase_guy]

Can they save emails?

Are you kidding?? That stuff only works in sci-fi movies!!!

[jocon307]

“Can they save emails?”

My question too!

[Qiviut]

Typical Obama MO - spend LOTS, accomplish little. If the software folks did their job on the front end, you wouldn’t need this money burner on the back end. It’s not SWAT (although they’ll probably end up weaponized with guns and ammo like the other departments that have no need of weapons), it’s a human water pistol to put out forest fires.

[Dixie Yooper]

Do they get paramilitary SWAT Teams like all the other agencies?

[Kozak]

Digital dogs everywhere terrified.

[tacticalogic]

He didn't listen to the people he already had telling him the healthcare website project was a train wreck in progress, so the idea that these people are going to prevent another one doesn't hold water.

Their job won't be to prevent the train wreck, it's be to keep people from calling it a train wreck.

[gunsmithkat]

Coming soon, advanced classes in email destruction.