Posted on 10/17/2013 3:14:26 PM PDT by libstripper
Federal officials did not permit testing of the Obamacare healthcare.gov website or issue final system requirements until four to six days before its Oct. 1 launch, according to an individual with direct knowledge of the project.
The individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the troubled Obamacare website project as suffering from top-level management disarray, changing systems requirements and recurring delays.
The root cause of the problems was a pivotal decision by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officials to act as systems integrator, the central coordinator for the entire program. Usually this role is reserved for the prime information technology contractor.
As a result, full testing of the site was delayed until four to six days before the fateful Oct. 1 launch of the health care exchanges, the individual said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
do you really believe that this admin is smart enough to demand testing, these people are evil but not smart
I’ve been stumbling around the valley for years, ebusiness, security, communications, manufacturing, testing..
And Support in general which exposed me to a lot of technologies..
The debacle unfolding was so preventable, I feel for any coders involved, not your fault.
But that’s if one assumes it was ever intended to be successful in the first place.
For a regime to prosper, a lot of things need to go dreadfully wrong.
Is your spell checker broken?
sounds like its a full rewrite.
architects are saying when you hit “apply” there is a call to 90+different databases.
no i type from a 1.5 in by 2 in key pad but thanks for asking.
There’s a reason to code in a test-driven fashion. If me and my dev. cohorts rolled out a steaming pile like this....
Not to mention over budget? Only gov’t throws good $$ after bad...for YEARS
This article is utterly damning. If there is one underlying core trait to the Obama administration, it is incompetence.
We can break that down.
My gut says the ego, the arrogance, of the millennial staffers who think they know so much more than the graying middle age staffers, the arrogance of the unionized bureaucrats, the ego and arrogance of "The One", said "We won, we know what we are doing."
But then there is the potential pragmatic side, which realizes it will never be held accountable in the media, can get away with literally anything. They would build ObamaCare and then destroy it with a Cloward-Piven play in order to bring about single-payer.
Either is equally possible.
That is it. That is exactly what I have been saying. Sit back and warm up the corn popper. This may be the gift which keeps on giving.
Then there is the possibility that Obamacare has been steadily hemorrhaging support since its passage and they had a real fear that if they didn’t rush it into implementation, the public clamor for its repeal would increase to a fevered pitch.
Or that there are real legal challenges working their way through the courts which threaten portions of the act, but once in place, Congress would be pressured to amend the law to comply.
Actually, even though SCOTUS upheld the mandate, their striking down the state required Medicaid expansion will add billions of $$$ to the estimated 10 year cost. Millions make too much to qualify for Medicaid, yet too little to afford insurance. They have no choice but to pay the penalty. So millions will still be left without insurance and taxpayers will pick up the tab for their emergency room visits.
They TOTALLY violated the "7 P's Of Project Management" [Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance] from the get go.
You have to have a STRONG Project Management Team who is tasked and given TOTAL autonomy to drive the work - and they SHOULD NOT in any way shape or form be beholden to either the contractors or have any "political" stake in the outcome of the project.
Anything else is a disaster waiting to happen ...
So much for ACID
does not compute
It’s a database acronym.
ah. looked it up. kind of like “comitting” a tranasctiion.
It is the law of the land of relational databases.
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