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‘Tech Surge’ Planned to Fix Obamacare Exchanges
Wall Street Journal ^
| October 20, 2013
| By LOUISE RADNOFSKY
Posted on 10/20/2013 2:10:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Sorry, Mr. Healthcare Official, the best and brightest are all gainfully employed at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia, SalesForce.com, et al. You get the worst and dimmest because you are government and who in their right mind would work for you? You dont offer anybody the chance to be a millionaire or maybe even a billionaire. Unless youre a CEO crony corporatist crook, that is.”
You make a good point.
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:33:05 PM PDT
by
babygene
( .)
To: RKV
I've been building at enterprise level since 1983. During that time I've witnessed the validity of the wisdom in the Mythical Man Month as other projects repeated the error. My current group was certified at SEI 5. We just had a company split, so the process is restarting. The SEI 3 was just recertified. SEI 5 evaluation underway. Very confident that we will be back there in a few weeks. It's mostly a matter of scheduling the evaluations. The organization is running that way already.
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:33:27 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Oldeconomybuyer; a fool in paradise
Been there, done that (or rather, refused to get involved when I could.) A software disaster of this magnitude takes in my experience years to fix.
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:35:28 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Hardraade
actually they are very adroit thieves
Severe punishment beyond prison time is in order
The tumbrels must roll
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:38:23 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Another few billion squandered will do the trick. To screw up this much you really need a union.
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:39:29 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Two approaches need to take place on this. They need to happen concurrently:
1.) Hearings on why the system originally failed. Subpoena EVERYTHING related to the effort.
2.) Hearings on whether this surge effort to “fix” the problems is adhering to government contracting law. Because the way I hear this the Obama Administration is definitely going down the road of “ask forgiveness not permission” and the “fixes” will happen in a highly illegal contracting environment.
To: CommieCutter
absolutely!!!
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:43:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Sorry, Mr. Healthcare Official, the best and brightest are all gainfully employed at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia, SalesForce.com, et al. You get the worst and dimmest because you are government and who in their right mind would work for you? You dont offer anybody the chance to be a millionaire or maybe even a billionaire. Unless youre a CEO crony corporatist crook, that is.
I'm betting that calls have already been made from the White House to Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerburg (and other successful Liberal tech entrepreneurs) requesting that they "loan" their best/brightest to HHS to get the system up and running.
And there's no doubt that they've said "absolutely".
Unfortunately, the rework of Healthcare.gov that's being proposed is going to violate all sorts of Federal contracting laws, regulations, rules, practices, etc.
The Republicans need to get out ahead of this and stay on top of it.
To: tanknetter
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posted on
10/20/2013 4:55:33 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: All
WaPo: “Even now, administration officials are declining to disclose many details about the debugging effort. They will not say how many experts whom they describe as the best and the brightest are on the team, when the team began its work or how soon the sites flaws might be corrected. Still, in talking about the repairs, administration officials for the first time conceded that the sites problems extend beyond well-publicized front-end obstacles, such as with setting up a personal account.”
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:08:33 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Technology is NEVER a substitute for good management (decision making)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Money will obviously not be a problem here."
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:09:07 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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. And who will be determining who "the best and the brightest" are? How will the administration know?
Will there be a new turkey as project manager, willing to serve as sacrificial lamb?
The administration appears already to have made a political decision not to do a redesign and rewrite - suppose that doesn't work? What will they do then?
Has anyone considered how expensive and time-consuming it will be to maintain this turkey, what with all the hastily applied patches (that likely will cause other "glitches")? OMG!!! Heaven forbid that anyone should do any thinking instead of running around like chickens with their heads off.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Look, I've got 25 years in this field. I have an idea what the hell it would take.
It would take nothing less than scrapping the entire existing system and starting with an ARCHITECTURALLY SOUND DESIGN.
And at a minimum, it would take 2 to 5 years.
No matter how many warm bodies you throw at it.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:12:45 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Myrddin
This thing is going to be (more of) the same CF.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:13:35 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: RKV
I’ve got ya by 10 years, and I agree with your assessment.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:14:17 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Thom Pain
Absolutely right .. if he really wants this to work the only way to do it by Jan 1 would be to make a simple .pdf for people to print , fill out and then mail in or call a rep who understands the options. I myself have filled out the requested info at least 6==>10 times and always get a failure at the very end .. "unable to verify xxx" or similar.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:16:39 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
To: Lazamataz
Hey Laz, will this be like Obama’s “surge” in Afghanistan?
Headline: Obama to increase tech force by 10,000 in effort
to conquer glitches.
Headline: Obama to pull tech troops out after Christmas...
Headline: Glitches now control half of province...
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:18:29 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: jz638
Long story short, this is going to be a disaster for a long timeYou've clearly been in this industry for a long time. You've done a damned good analysis.
I cannot fault a single one of your points.
I would add, the only way the current system could EVER work is if they standardized all integration interfaces. Kinda a Henry Ford approach to development at the government level. All data objects would need to be standardized, all components would need to have the same interfaces.
The only industry attempts I have seen that have (relatively) succeeded were in EDI, and in another venue (communications protocol) TCP-IP (and all related protocols). Those got pretty close to standardization.
But the GOVERNMENT? Succeeding at a standarization like THIS? I suppose ADA did a reasonable job but that was driven by the defense INDUSTRY, not the government.
This thing may come to reliable fruition in 10 years with the current 'bandage' approach. They'd save 5 years if they scrapped and restarted. The only *true*, *bulletproof* solution is a universal government standardization, and that would take at least 3 years right off the rip.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:21:25 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: tet68
My experience is that adding warm bodies slows projects down.
The only solution is a nimble team led by amazing people, or in this case, 50 to 100 nimble teams.
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posted on
10/20/2013 5:22:36 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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