The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!
Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.
This "mistake" is what most people would call 'utter incompetence'.
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#82We're all lucky that an organization too inept to manage a campaign is ultimately not allowed to manage the country.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
A cynic would say that this is just the software consulting version of what management consultants like Romney do.
Yes and no. On one hand, management consultants are typically working with the executives of a company, and usually one of those executives will have been a former consultant (the executive boardrooms of companies are filled with them). Not to mention that both consultants and executives usually have the same set of "skills." On the other hand, one former management consultant I spoke to told me that executives would…
Oh, I don't disagree. I think you see a lot of both: real value-added in operations, logistics, etc, and a lot of purchased CYA. And let's be fair--CYA is something we all do in corporate America, at least if you're smart.
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#84Orca had been conceived by two men—Romney's Director of Voter Contact Dan Centinello and the campaign's Political Director Rich Beeson... To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. This sounds like a lot of failed IT projects in large corporations -- dreamed up by upper management types who don't know anything about tech, then farmed out to consultants and tech…
And yet, despite this disaster, Mitt Romney’s campaign handed out more than $200,000 in bonuses last month to senior staffers, according to new disclosure records filed Thursday. Richard Beeson, Romney’s national political director, received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31 in addition to his salary, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012…
This is totally offtopic. I have no idea why he gave people bonuses in October, but I don't think it has anything to do with a system that apparently wasn't deployed until November.
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#8511 DB servers and 1 web app? Let's look at how the db was structured. Wait...nevermind forget it.
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#86Zero training? A single web server? No end users even touching the system till it's time for mission critical use? No frigging redirect of http->https? And it looks like, as has happened more than once in my professional life, people outside of the management structure saw possible risks and were blown off by those in charge. Even if you supported Romney, this has to give you some pause about the man's management ski…
He hired Microsoft and what sounds like a Microsoft Partner. No one gets fired for buying Microsoft.
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#87This is an absolutely perfect use case for cloud hosting like Azure - dev local, test on a few small instances, scale up as needed on election day, then shut it down. From the article it sounds like they paid for eleven servers, which was significantly more expensive and lower powered.
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#88It's too bad the Romney campaign was unable to tap the services of an experienced businessman who is expert at management and delegation.
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#89The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!
I don't know about you but there were days when I was trying to get a web app to support IE6 that I was envious of how easy the president has it.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet, despite this disaster, Mitt Romney’s campaign handed out more than $200,000 in bonuses last month to senior staffers, according to new disclosure records filed Thursday. Richard Beeson, Romney’s national political director, received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31 in addition to his salary, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012…
Wow, I thought the bonuses he gave out at the convention for winning the nomination made sense. I wonder what last month's were for, "winning" the debates?
Maybe to keep the rodents inside the vessel until the sailing date.