100%!!! comes a time when you just have to say it's broken and start over, simply because it's cheaper...
Posted on 10/20/2013 2:10:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday it was bringing in outside help to resolve some of the technical woes that have beset the federally run insurance exchanges, which the agency acknowledged “has not lived up to the expectations of the American people.”
“We are committed to doing better,” agency officials said in a blog post that also said that “our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve healthcare.gov.”
Spokespeople for the agency didn’t immediately respond to questions seeking more information about the development, which it is billing as a “tech surge.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
The government offers great job security for the incompetent though.
100%!!! comes a time when you just have to say it's broken and start over, simply because it's cheaper...
Plus there are already third party packages, that already have been thoroughly tested for doing such common things as those.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
Or, as I like to say to summarize TMMM: You can’t put 9 women in a room and get a baby in a month.
Dude! Where ya been? Requirements are so 20th Century! Relax already!
You're old enough to remember the giant systems integration contract failures of the 80's and 90's. Surely you remember the cure for failure! Redefinition of Success! These ACA guys are way ahead of you on this, the Secretary of HHS gets to redefine everything without having to go back to Congress for much. It's like totally covered!
Consider the classic progression of bad news:
"It is a crock of s--t, it stinks."
--> "It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof."
--> "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
--> "It is a vessel of fertiliser, and none may abide its strength."
--> "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."
--> "It promotes growth, and it is very powerful."
Reading is hard! Let's go shopping for BMWs instead!
Guys, is there actually a spec underneath all of this crap? I truly doubt it. As noted above, the big guys, think Amazon, Google, Facebook and others, took YEARS to get is semi-right (and by my lights I really do mean “semi”). This thing is HUGE by any definition. I’ve got experience with Oracle ERP and watched how it took 3 years to get a new major module built and semi-tested. This thing is bigger than that. At least if you do it right. Now if you don’t give a rat about HIPPA, etc. well, I guess you might wing it. Seriously folks, we should beat the Zero administration over the head with this - and as noted above, I have my suspicions regarding the contracting process of this abortion.
Anyone can whip up a registration and info-collection website. Well, anyone except these guys. Even under the tremendous user load, it's doable.
However, it is the MEAT that will put the date out five years, minimum.
Don't forget the user load. I suppose you could put up an access wall, the portal lands on a farm of gatekeepers, that let you in as available, to the second farm of actual application servers. That is the 'throttling' technique that could work to keep the third-party stuff from dying under the load.
“to scrub in with the team and help improve”
Sickening bunch of arrogant *ssholes!
Now they think they are freaking surgeons...
Good to know. Because if it was possible you know everyone in Washington and the media would let him get away with spending another 600 million fixing it.
This will be fun to watch indeed.
Gee, I wonder if we're going to see a reference to Gall's Law on CNN or some other media front? Wonder if he's still alive? He was a doctor I think.
I wonder if we'll see the wikipedia entry revised to debunk it as "obviously wrong"...next it will be on Snopes...
If you get your architecture wrong at the start, the thing won’t scale. Then you’ve got interfaces to dial in. And they aren’t easy. Then security. Then load testing. Then mobility. ... For a comparison take a look at the history of SAP, Oracle and the other big ERP vendors. YEARS to get it dialed in. That’s what systems of this scale take. And you have to have real live software engineering. Patches won’t fix what’s wrong here. Now of course I expect the feds to move the goal line.
Extradite them from Canada?
“You can’t take 9 women and make a baby in a month.”
That is great.
I always think of a rosebud. You can’t yank the petals open and make it bloom a week early. You’ll just kill it.
you knew they would bring in the Postal Service eventually
hell nothing woulds happen to them even it they were from the US... but i don't see how charges can't "by law" be brought against them for international fraud
Laz, I was just discussing what will happen with my CPA brother. As he said, any new team always causes more problems because their goals are to:
1) make money
2) not take any blame.
I’m a mech E. who ended up programming. I used to call it the “Oy Vey” moment, when consultants are brought in on any project.
Oy Vey, I can’t believe how stupid these idiots were who started this project. Consultants GET PAID to say that. Heck, I’ve said that as a consultant.
now you and I know that there are always some number of rat hairs in the soup. Some are idiot errors, and some were forced by the budget/time/events. The problem for any fixit team is they have no idea what the legitimate kludges were and what is idiot gigo.
This will be fun, the Obamacare Fixit will be one huge CF, to use an engineering term..
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