Somewhere in the chain someone was probably saying "It's not ready", but the brass said "Too bad, we go live on this date ready or not". Politicians are used t

Somewhere in the chain someone was probably saying "It's not ready", but the brass said "Too bad, we go live on this date ready or not". Politicians are used to pushing things through the system as fast as possible and then patching them later. When your QA process is a court system that takes years to notice the bugs, software development is a somewhat jarring process.