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Since I find non-descriptive headlines like this annoying (edit: looks like it's been changed on HN to be much better), here is a quote from the article that su
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Since I find non-descriptive headlines like this annoying (edit: looks like it's been changed on HN to be much better), here is a quote from the article that surprisingly provides its own TL;DR:
>Here is the tl;dr version of their story: Marketplace Lite, or “MPL” as they came to be known, devoted months to rewriting Healthcare.gov functions in full, working as a startup within the government and replacing contractor-made apps with ones costing one-fiftieth of the price. And when, nearly a year after the initial launch of Healthcare.gov, the website’s second open-enrollment proved much healthier than its first, it was the MPL team who celebrated.
- dak1 10y agoAnd perhaps the biggest takeaway of the whole article, buried in the middle of it: > Instead, if the successes of the MPL team confirm any guiding principle for the future, it is this: Technical workers—not only engineers but designers—have to be involved with a process from the beginning. They will know that features must be described separately from needs, and that, when building software, smaller teams often perform better than larger teams.
- caminante 10y agomore tl;dr, here's the prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857662 Many HN'ers suspected this was a "submarine" piece.