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A comment on Obamacare downtime because of poor coding.

Re:Obamacare downtime because of poor coding by hga on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:59PM (#6607178)
"“We have worked with the insures and the ‘alpha teams’ we jointly established made up of insurers’ technology experts and CMS technology experts, to iron out the kinks,” said Press Secretary Jay Carney in an emailed statement...."

Anyone out there ever heard of "alpha teams" in this context?

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Re:Obamacare downtime because of poor coding by unclebucknasty on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:03PM (#6607944)
They've been using this term, as well as "A-team" to describe the best people the various agencies/contractors have.
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