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Having worked for a NYC government vendor who, unfortunately, outsourced a huge chunk of dev work abroad due to low costs (and I assume the manager's shady rela
by throwaway743 5y ago
Having worked for a NYC government vendor who, unfortunately, outsourced a huge chunk of dev work abroad due to low costs (and I assume the manager's shady relationships with outsourcers), the amount of bugs and blatant negligence I observed in the delivered code was staggering. Even with said mistakes the manager/project managers were more concerned with getting the project out the door, so once delievered, they'd ship usually without internal audit of the code.
It makes one wonder if this is the case with the healthcare site you used, and whether or not this outsourcing of dev is common practice among government vendors? If so, it seems that we can only hope for something to fix these situations, given that government seems to only care once shit hits the fan
- justin_oaks 5y agoI can understand outsourcing development, but I suspect part of the problem with outsourcing the development is that QA of the product is done by the same vendor. "We investigated ourselves and found ourselves clear of any wrongdoing."
- YeBanKo 5y agoFor IT it’s often that whoever makes software, also tests it. When dealing with outsourcers, there comes a level of complexity. Government contractors don’t have skin in the game, and hence motivation to appropriately handle this complexity.