“Agile” methodologies blamed for healthcare.gov failure
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While I understand the site has to support millions of users, tons of data, etc., is this a normal cost for building such a site?
EDIT: Normal by .gov standards, but from a technical standpoint not really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo
I like the way the presenter sums it up...it seems like each contractor was responsible for their own little piece of the stack, and nobody was actually responsible for delivering a website. That should've been the gating criteria.