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The story of Healthcare.gov is pretty much the poster for this. They didn’t need to bring in a bunch of clever people to figure out requirements, that was alrea
by matthewdgreen 6y ago
The story of Healthcare.gov is pretty much the poster for this. They didn’t need to bring in a bunch of clever people to figure out requirements, that was already done and the site just didn’t work. To fix it they had to bring in a team of tech experts, who largely just did tech things —- competently and at a lower cost than the contractors who did the first iteration. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/397784/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
- pjmlp 6y agoWhile true, the team that was chosen also did not had the experience with public facing sites. The contract was given to a team used to do intranet websites in classical JEE format and the letting them lose in such a project, designing as they knew. https://changelog.com/gotime/154 https://changelog.com/gotime/154