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These types of projects typically have dozens or hundreds of consultants involved. Given all the media coverage, I'm surprised there was no whistleblower who ca
by TuringNYC 7y ago
These types of projects typically have dozens or hundreds of consultants involved. Given all the media coverage, I'm surprised there was no whistleblower who came forward with evidence of poor software quality, etc. Certainly it must have been known that even basic reports on the system do not reconcile. So innocent people went to prison and the consultants continued to stay quiet about bugs?!
- catalogia 7y ago> "I'm surprised there was no whistleblower who came forward with evidence of poor software quality, etc." A lot of people know that the takedown of Enron was precipitated or at least in some way aided by a whistleblower, but what a lot of people don't know is that the whistleblower went to the CEO, not the government, and went back to work at Enron for a few more months after confronting the CEO and receiving assurances that he'd look into the matter. The Enron whistleblower, whom some have argued wasn't really a whistleblower at all, seems to have been primarily concerned with losing her job rather than taking down the corporation for being a fraud. So you've got a company with tens of thousands of people, probably hundreds of whom might have seen or heard something wrong, yet despite that the sole whistleblower was hardly a whistleblower at all. The incidence rate of whistleblowing has historically been very low. It seems that few people riding gravy trains make an earnest attempt to derail them.