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It was a 3 year project with requirements changing up until the last 4 months where end-to-end was managed under waterfall (some pieces/contractors used agile l
by beauzero 13y ago
It was a 3 year project with requirements changing up until the last 4 months where end-to-end was managed under waterfall (some pieces/contractors used agile like methodology)...and there was 2 weeks of final end-to-end manual QA...what the hell else did they expect to happen?
- hga 13y agoIt was worse, the "no window shopping" decision was made less than 4 months before launch (August to September as I recall), and changes were made through the week before launch. The NYT reports 7 major changes in less than 10 months. And it didn't matter what the QA reported, the site was hell or high water launch Oct 1st whatever they revealed. As always, those with political power (reported to be the White House and CMS, maybe some of HHS) trump those who have to make it work in the real world.