Articles on Healthcare.gov software development disaster
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I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to submit them to CodeProject. I did three months of research, interviewing developers and whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what happened. The first article is a journalistic treatment: ** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both programmers and managers: ** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the above two articles: ** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823 I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these articles to CodeProject. Thanks. John J. Xenakis john@jxenakis.com john@generationaldynamics.com
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I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to submit them to CodeProject. I did three months of research, interviewing developers and whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what happened. The first article is a journalistic treatment: ** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both programmers and managers: ** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the above two articles: ** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823 I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these articles to CodeProject. Thanks. John J. Xenakis john@jxenakis.com john@generationaldynamics.com
You might want to post this question in the Article-Writing[^] forum.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You might want to post this question in the Article-Writing[^] forum.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Thanks, I'll do that.
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I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to submit them to CodeProject. I did three months of research, interviewing developers and whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what happened. The first article is a journalistic treatment: ** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both programmers and managers: ** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the above two articles: ** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history ** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823 I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these articles to CodeProject. Thanks. John J. Xenakis john@jxenakis.com john@generationaldynamics.com
I'm neither journalist nor lawyer, but I spent 10 seconds looking at the first article to see it contained numerous incidents of libel that you could be sued for. Journalism is best keep to reporting of facts rather than accusations you might find yourself having to prove.
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I'm neither journalist nor lawyer, but I spent 10 seconds looking at the first article to see it contained numerous incidents of libel that you could be sued for. Journalism is best keep to reporting of facts rather than accusations you might find yourself having to prove.
I've already discussed all that with my lawyer, and besides that, many readers of my web site are lawyers, and would have written to me about it. The reality today is that the corruption and criminality in Washington and on Wall Street are at enormous levels, at levels so high that they were unthinkable prior to the rise of Generation-X in the 2000s. So the other side of that is nobody gets sued because almost everyone is a criminal, and criminality is the norm, so no one goes to jail. It's possible that someone will try to sue me, but for what purpose? I have almost no money, I'm old enough that I don't give a shit, and suing me would just cause me to write about the people suing me, which would give more publicity to their crimes. They know that, so they'll just ignore me. By the way, the whistleblowers that I wrote about have also given evidence to the FBI, which is investigating the same crimes. These are people who took hundreds of millions of dollars, knowing that their programming staff were too incompetent to even implement a network connection, and the results speak for themselves -- Healthcare.gov: The Greatest IT Disaster in World History.
