how healthcare.gov botched 600M worth of contracts
[WHAT]
] by John Tozzi - a look into how the federal government mismanaged contracts for the development of the healthcare.gov web site, a report on the audit conducted by the us gov on the failure of its system
] VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo - Robert Kennedy, a googler who worked on the "tech surge" team shares some of his war stories about the experience, ] culture - supportive VS non, guy gets fired for making mistake ]
] VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vc8sxhy2I4 - Mikey Dickerson, another googler, who was in it from the beginning, now working with USDS
] three biggest problems
] no monitoring systems in place
] no one in charge, 50+ different companies contracted to build pieces of the system, but no one to make sure the "whole system" worked
*] we didnt build a new system, we fixed/patched the system they had