Reason Magazine thinks the Federal Obamacare signup site is unfixable.
Josh Barro, who is basically supportive of the law, writes that “there’s no reason not to level with the public right now, unless the truth is so horrible and the website is so un-fixable that Obama administration officials can’t bring themselves to discuss the matter publicly,” I wonder if he might be on to something.
Brook’s Law is I believe sufficient to explain everything that will happen from here on.
Brooks’s law is a principle in software development which says that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”.[1][2] It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
. The corollary of Brooks’s Law is that there is an incremental person who, when added to a project, makes it take more, not less time. Brooks adds that “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month”.
Kathleen Sebelius the nation’s top health official said:
The online insurance marketplace needed five years of construction and a year of testing, she said: “We had two years and almost no testing.”
She also said:
“I called on the contractor to get its A-team here and give us 150%”
It will never get done.
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“Give us 150%.”
Soon to be obvious to everybody: the hurrieder you are with software, the behinder you get.
This whole thing would be funny if not for the people who are losing insurance coverage and being forced into higher cost policies due to the hubris of Obama and the Demos.
Back in the day managers placed all of their faith on what we called the Mongolian Horde Theorem.
(It is the one that says that if a woman can produce a baby in nine months, nine women can produce one in one month.)
Kind of surprised the oatmeal hasn’t done a cartoon yet…or maybe has…