Re:Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags
by bjourne on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:36AM
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> We have a strong national military... what's to stop us from having a strong national development team? I'm 100%-for private industry and letting private companies bid and fight to build the best product for the job ...
How would you then fix the obvious misalignment of interests? Party A gives party B $X to perform a job. It is in party B:s best interest to spend as little effort as possible on the job, and/or to maximize $X. Even if B is staffed only by rockstar programmers who do amazing work, their incentive is to work as little as possible and introduce as many bugs as possible be because they get paid for fixing bugs.
Only way I can see to solve that is for the governments to do their own software development in house.
How would you then fix the obvious misalignment of interests? Party A gives party B $X to perform a job. It is in party B:s best interest to spend as little effort as possible on the job, and/or to maximize $X. Even if B is staffed only by rockstar programmers who do amazing work, their incentive is to work as little as possible and introduce as many bugs as possible be because they get paid for fixing bugs.
Only way I can see to solve that is for the governments to do their own software development in house.