Washington is grilling the Obamacare software contractors today. Medium rare at least. Someone should have asked about the specifications for the job.
When was the final signed off specification released to the programmers? Was the website user load specified? Who signed off for the government? How many change orders were issued AFTER the specification was released to the programmers? Who signed off on the change orders? How long was the specification? Fifty pages is about right. By the time you get to a hundred pages nobody understands it. Who wrote the spec, government or the contractors? What kind of contract was it, firm fixed fee, cost plus incentive fee, or plain old cost plus? How many programmers did your company have on the job? When did they start? How much has your company been paid? What milestones were set for payment? What testing was required? Did the program pass those tests before Oct 1? How many lines of code were delivered? Does the program run on Windows?
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One other fun fact. No technical people (programmers or engineers) were grilled. The contractors sent suits and lawyers, who in general know nothing, and are fluent liars. And the Congress critters were OK with this.
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