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A 61-day processing period is not cheap for the person waiting for money. You want to digitize old forms for retired people? This is entirely the wrong approac
by acchow 13y ago
A 61-day processing period is not cheap for the person waiting for money.
You want to digitize old forms for retired people? This is entirely the wrong approach.
New data should be in digital form. Not even all new data, just one vertical at a time - new payroll data, new business expense data, new insurance claims data, etc. This shards the work into tractable, testable, measurable units. There will be a (long) period when processing retirement forms will need to pull data from both analog and digital sources. That time will eventually pass, and the analog gradually phased out.
- hindsightbias 13y agoInvesting 100's of millions into a parallel system that won't yield much until a good portion of your future retirees are in it (and all 50 diferrent federal agencies records are integrated in) is a hard sell in any universe. In the meantime, that system will obsolesce in 5 years and you'll have to redo it all again.
- watt 13y agoAre you aware of time periods involved, though? When you say "new data" do you understand that this new data will only become pertinent in about 50 years, when the employee that just came in to system, retires. 50 years later. And meanwhile, you are processing paperwork for people that entered the system 50 years ago: on today, 1964. (Ok, maybe closer 40 years, but the point is the very long storage time.) Even if all new data is digital today, what about 50 years later, how easy will it be to use digital files that were generated 50 years earlier. What if file formats change every 10 years. Then 50 years on, you got 5 different file formats you must be able to work with.