CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by belter5 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:56PM (#25976117)

There was just an article on here last week about how software development is a learning process and programs are just artifacts of that process. Big, old, messy, and highly regulated domains will obviously be hard to learn.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ethbr0 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:50AM (#25976412)

Here's an example I learned on Friday:

If money is left over, apply to the next available item via (logic).

Unless money is sent twice, for two separate sub-items on the same item, in which case if the first amount is insufficient to cover the entirety of the first sub-item, the excess (if any) from the second amount, after being applied to the second sub-item, must be applied to the remainder of the first sub-item.

There are legal ramifications of doing the first way, without the second. And only the actual in-the-trenches people were able to tell us about the second.

Using outsourced process documentation is @&$&ing useless.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by Aeolun on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:42AM (#25978381)

To be fair, this sounds like someone having a hard time saying you should apply the money sent to the entire balance.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ethbr0 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:34AM (#25979080)

Nope. That's pretty much what the specs (written by outsourced consultants) said.

In reality, there's one edge case where things needs to be applied in a different, distinct, and very specific order, otherwise (legal consequences).

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by Aeolun on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:32PM (#25983263)

Yeah, this is probably just my lack of context around the subject.

That said, if I get requirements like that I always have a strong feeling the case can be generalized. Laws generally aren’t as specific as that.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ethbr0 on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:34AM (#25990166)

This is around refund payments and interest, in healthcare. So probably an outlier. ;)

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by bdavis__ on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:45AM (#25978766)

not to mention the fact that by definition the software developers know very little about the domain (given that 1/2 of them have less than 5 years of experience)

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