Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates

Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by wly_cdgr on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:40AM (#26234451)

I'm not saying it mightn't be 2000 hours of red tape, incompetence, and corruption. I could believe that easily enough. I'm saying it's not 2000 hours of actual work.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by pas on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:24AM (#26234995)

But that's actual work too.

Yes, it's a few weeks of coding at best. Maybe more if they need to integrate with some external systems for data ingestion.

But it's not a lean agile MVP for a startup. Redtape is just as much a deliverable as the function itself.

And 2000 hours for a 4 person team is a quarter of a year. Sure it might take less for a full stack ninja with 5 years of rockstar experience, but those folks are not available for some reason (Pink Floyd - Money!).

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