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Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

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What it is

Mikey Dickerson's keynote at Velocity NY 2014, one year after the healthcare.gov launch failure. He recounts how a small team rescued the site and what the episode showed about government IT contracting.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as a firsthand account of how dysfunctional large IT projects can be, with about 50 contractors and no one in charge.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “I saw Mikey Dickerson give a great talk about his experience leading the completion of healthcare.gov”

    Great talk on leading healthcare.gov completion.

    beckler, 2020-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work”

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Topics: healthcare.gov, us digital service, project failure, contractors, operations

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