Obamacare, IT, and magic thinking : And Still I Persist…: "My best guess is that sooner or later, the ‘Apply Now’ section of Healthcare.gov is going to have to be shut down for an extended period, and that will set an interesting chain of events into motion, including a possible delay of the individual mandate. With the just-this-weekend-announced “surge” effort, it appears that the Administration is finally taking the problems seriously. But that effort will take time, particularly to the extent that the system has to communicate with various existing Federal systems. It also invites the wrath of Brooks’s Law:Socialism takes on Brooks' Law.
Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.Bring in the best and the brightest, and all will be fixed in days if not hours? More magical thinking."
– Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month, 1975.
Brooks' Law will lose of course. Because you'll never find out about any of it on the news. Because to Deltons, if it isn't on TV it doesn't exist.
What Fred Brooks?
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