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There was that time a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers went and fixed the healthcare.gov (Obamacare) site for the US govt after the original contractors did a
by mprovost 5y ago
There was that time a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers went and fixed the healthcare.gov (Obamacare) site for the US govt after the original contractors did a terrible job. But then the first team were already contractors, so maybe the lesson there is, if your first external consultants don't work, just keep bringing in more?
- dekhn 5y agothe engineers who "fixed" the site all worked themselves to near-death "fixing" the site. Not sure that's a real win.
- thehours 5y agoI didn’t know much about this from the contractors’ perspective. This Atlantic article [1] seems like a decent overview for anyone else interested. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210705021438if_/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210705021438if_/https://www.th...