Anyone with a project management background see this ending well?
Yes. Delayed 0 care.
Nope.
I am in PM, and I see a wonderful outcome for the country: complete and total failure.
Can’t get any better than that. :)
“Anyone with a project management background see this ending well?”
I have managed large IT project for 20 years, and I can tell you right now they will have to delay the individual mandate by at least a year.
They might have a working system by this time next year if they are lucky. Very lucky.
Nope. I am a PM, engineer, and programmer.
They need to fire the original PM team and replace with STRONG PMs, elicit a set of User Requirements from the government and lock them down, produce a set of deliverables and a timeline, write code, Alpha Test the modules [done by programmers] as they are created, and then Beta Test modules with real-world users.
As bugs are found, and they will be, rinse and repeat until no more bugs can be found. This necessarily adds time to the project and timelines need to be pushed out.
Once the individual modules seem to be stable, the whole system needs to be integrated together and Alpha Tested [by programmers], and then Beta Tested by real-world users. Again, any bugs [and there are sure to be at least some] will necessitate rinse and repeat, as above.
FINALLY, any deviation in user requirements along the way MAY necessitate starting back at square 1 ...