Как Республиканцы провалились на IT фронте

[Virginian]

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... -meltdown/

Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price.


"It was supposed to be a "killer app," but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done more harm to Romney's chances on Election Day—largely because of a failure to follow basic best practices for IT projects.

Called "Orca," the effort was supposed to give the Romney campaign its own analytics on what was happening at polling places and to help the campaign direct get-out-the-vote efforts in the key battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Colorado.

Instead, volunteers couldn't get the system to work from the field in many states—in some cases because they had been given the wrong login information. The system crashed repeatedly. At one point, the network connection to the Romney campaign's headquarters went down because Internet provider Comcast reportedly thought the traffic was caused by a denial of service attack."

"...And for many of those who managed to get to their polling places and who called up the website on their phones, there was another, insurmountable hurdle—their passwords didn't work and attempts to reset passwords through the site also failed. As for the voice-powered backup system, it failed too as many poll watchers received the wrong personal identification numbers needed to access the system. Joel Pollak of Briebart reported that hundreds of volunteers in Colorado and North Carolina couldn't use either the Web-based or the voice-based Orca systems; it wasn't until 6:00 PM on Election Day that the team running Orca admitted they had issued the wrong PIN codes and passwords to everyone in those states, and they reset them. Even then, some volunteers still couldn’t login."


А вот как команда Обамы подошла к этому вопросу:

Built to win: Deep inside Obama's campaign tech

[NEBRITOS]

так кто сосет? девелоперы, менеджеры или заказчики?

[Virginian]

так кто сосет? девелоперы, менеджеры или заказчики?

Все вместе. Ромни нанял компанию своего дружка и партнера по бизнесу, тот в свою очередь своих дружбанов, которые дружно заутсорсили все проекты наняв Accenture. Ну и получили то, что получили. Тут еще и шпиономания сыграла свою роль, систему держали в секрете до последнего дня перед выборами, чтобы не дай Бог команда Обамы ее не скопировала, ее ни разу не испытывали в реальной обстановке полностью положившись на стресс тест.

[Medium-rare]

Вот оно, секретное, но всеми виденное, оружие демократов:

[lxf]

так кто сосет? девелоперы, менеджеры или заказчики?

Республиканцы.

[NEBRITOS]

и этот, МакКайн тоже?

[Medium-rare]

А вот это оружие как мы забыли?

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