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Chapter 10

The HealthCare.gov: Feasibility Issues

Healthcare.gov problems go beyond enrollment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bvFl2wC7o

Millions of Americans along with insurance companies have had trouble with signing up on healthcare.gov. According to insurance companies, the Web site has had glitches that has led to duplicate and incomplete enrollment forms being generated. Out of 17 million visitors, only 20,000 people have managed to enroll. eHealth, the country’s largest online seller of health insurance, has a contract with the federal government to help enroll people into Obama Care, but problems with the government’s Web site has slowed the company’s efforts.

China and IT Outsourcing

Why Outsourcing is Bad for Business

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7fsEIp2r_8

The savings once realized by outsourcing: hiring domestic or foreign contractors and offshoring (moving work overseas) are not what they used to be. The skilled workers in countries like China and India are still there, but so is intense competition for their services and as these workers begin to realize their value they have also become more demanding. For example, wages in China and India have been going up 10 to 20 percent a year for the past decade and compensation for senior Chinese managers now either matches or exceeds pay in America and Europe. Rising salaries plus the cost of transporting goods to the U.S. market have pushed some companies to reshore some of their production. For example, G.E. brought the production of their washing machines and other appliances from China to a plant in Kentucky. Outsourcing jobs can lead to a loss in intellectual property and can end up strengthening competition, can potentially damage a brand if the outsourced firm has a bad reputation on how they run their operation (e.g. treating its workers unfairly), too many players can lead to no centralized system of quality control, which can ruin a company’s reputation and quality.

Agile Methodology at HomeAway, Inc.

NEW Intro to Agile Scrum in Under 10 Minutes - What is Scrum? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0llRltyFM

In Scrum, features are written from the perspective of the end user; therefore, features are known as user stories. The collection of all these user stories is called the product backlog (a wish list of all the things that would make a product great). Next, we have to start planning which specific user stories we are going to put into a particular release of a product. To build a product, we need one or more people in our team who are going to play a variety of roles. First, we need the product owner who helps make sure the right features make it into the product backlog representing the users and customers of the product. We also need the scrum master whose job is to make sure the project is progressing smoothly and that every member of the team has the tools they need to get their job done; he sets up meetings, monitors the work being done and facilitates release planning.

Extreme Programming in Action

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Extreme Programming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhLZ7_KZ5w

The strengths of Extreme Programming (XP) are that it eliminates big design up font, codes most important features first, is responsive to change, and pair programming boosts creativity and task focus. The weaknesses of XP are that it eliminates big design up front, it is easy to forget how good design can pay for itself, it requires a lot of overhead, the order of importance is subjective and can still be addressed by up-front design, it emphasizes teamwork, communication, and prioritizing, but this is done to address the burden of “dynamic” environments, and each rule of XP works only when supported by another rule.