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 *Different thinking styles are encouraged and lead to better results
 *Design the workflow before actually implementing - have a designer
 ==Acknowledgments==

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	*Different thinking styles are encouraged and lead to better results		*Different thinking styles are encouraged and lead to better results
	*Design the workflow before actually implementing - have a designer		*Design the workflow before actually implementing - have a designer
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		+	==Acknowledgments==
		+	*I Acknowledge Blair for helping me write out the presentation when consolidating our outlines
		+	*'''While I worked with the people noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source.''' <br>
		+	[[User:Zvanysse\|Zvanysse]] ([[User talk:Zvanysse\|talk]]) 11:15, 13 November 2017 (PST)
		+	==References==
		+	*https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2017/index.php/Week_11
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		+	==Links==
		+	{{Template:Zvanysse}}

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 *Site's uptime rate is 91%
 *On Healthcare.gov’s first day, six people successfully used it to sign up for health insurance.
 *'''This sparked the Tech Surge - the beginning of the Marketplace Lite'''
 ===MarketPlace Lite Birth===
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 **A Data center of supercomputers
 **Companies can rent out the computational power of these supercomputers at a relatively cheap price as well as makes database management easier
-**Can easily scan up or scale back
+**Can easily scale up or scale back
 *Process took over 6 months for Healthcare.gov to accept the AWS proposal
 *The MPL team utilized Akamai while waiting for AWS, a cloud provider blessed by the government already to start building the foundational/ structural aspects of the website.
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 *Tension still rose between Government and MPL because the Government didn't understand what the MPL team was doing
 *Eventually, the MPL team released the App and it had great success - as it only took 9 minutes to sign up
-*Then, MPL worked on the actual website, which they worked out all the bugs for relatively quickly because they didn't have the Government breathing down their back
+*Then, MPL worked on the actual website. They worked out all the bugs relatively quickly because they didn't have the Government breathing down their back
 ===Significance of this work===
 *Made one of the governments' worst websites extremely more efficient and cost effective
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 *Reduced login request times to 30 milliseconds from 2-10 seconds
 *Reduced cost from 250 million to build and 70 million to maintain to 4 million to build and 1 million to maintain
 ===Takeaways to my assignment===
 *Communicate and understand that not all parts of the team have the same knowledge base as one another
 *Dynamically work on parts instead of waiting for one group to finish there part
 *Different thinking styles are encouraged and lead to better results

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 *Eventually, the MPL team released the App and it had great success - as it only took 9 minutes to sign up
 *Then, MPL worked on the actual website, which they worked out all the bugs for relatively quickly because they didn't have the Government breathing down their back
 ===Main Points of Process===
 *Outsources to Amazon Web Services

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 ==Outline==
 ===The Introduction===
 *Healthcare.gov was extremely slow and buggy and needed to be fixed.
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 *Then, MPL worked on the actual website, which they worked out all the bugs for relatively quickly because they didn't have the Government breathing down their back
 ===Main Points of Process===

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	*The government tried to implement a sequential infrastructure project management approach which ultimately failed		*The government tried to implement a sequential infrastructure project management approach which ultimately failed
	**It basically only wanted to move on when the software was fully implemented using a step by step process which unnecissarily prolonged the project		**It basically only wanted to move on when the software was fully implemented using a step by step process which unnecissarily prolonged the project
		+	**They ultimately went the "agile" way, working on multiple things at once
		+	*Tension still rose between Government and MPL because the Government didn't understand what the MPL team was doing
		+	*Eventually, the MPL team released the App and it had great success - as it only took 9 minutes to sign up
		+	*Then, MPL worked on the actual website, which they worked out all the bugs for relatively quickly because they didn't have the Government breathing down their back
		+	===Main Points of Process===

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	*The work life balance was very difficult - ten hours a day, 7 days a week		*The work life balance was very difficult - ten hours a day, 7 days a week
	*Worked at the DoubleTree		*Worked at the DoubleTree
		+	*Utilized Amazon Web Services
		+	**A Data center of supercomputers
		+	**Companies can rent out the computational power of these supercomputers at a relatively cheap price as well as makes database management easier
		+	**Can easily scan up or scale back
		+	*Process took over 6 months for Healthcare.gov to accept the AWS proposal
		+	*The MPL team utilized Akamai while waiting for AWS, a cloud provider blessed by the government already to start building the foundational/ structural aspects of the website.
		+	*In 2014, contracts were up, but most stayed on and actual quit their other jobs to join this team
		+	*Switched over to Chat Client help support, this eliminated the long long chains of emails
		+	*The government tried to implement a sequential infrastructure project management approach which ultimately failed
		+	**It basically only wanted to move on when the software was fully implemented using a step by step process which unnecissarily prolonged the project

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 #Supercomputers: A Supercomputer is a high performance computing machine designed to have extremely fast processing speeds. (Christensson, 2009)
 #Gantt chart: A Gantt Chart, commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities (tasks or events) displayed against time. (What is a Gantt Chart, 2017)
-#Login System
+#Agile software:  favors small, cross-disciplinary teams that stay in close communication with each other while quickly finishing iterative improvements to a product (Robinson, 2015)
 #The Tech Surge: A group of Silicon Valley developers who rescued the website from disorganized contractors and bureaucratic mismanagement. (Robinson, 2015)
 #Client software: The software that acts as the interface between the client computer an the server. (Christensson, 2006)
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 #Christensson, P. (2009, September 25). ''Supercomputer Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
 #"What is a Gantt Chart?" ''Gantt'', 2017m www.gantt.com/
+#Meyer, R. (2015, July 09). The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America. Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/
 #Meyer, R. (2015, July 09). The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America. Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/
 #Christensson, P. (2006). ''Client Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com

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	#Christensson, P. (2012, May 30). ''Cloud Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com		#Christensson, P. (2012, May 30). ''Cloud Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
	#Christensson, P. (2009, June 12). ''Static Website Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com		#Christensson, P. (2009, June 12). ''Static Website Definition.'' Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
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		+	==Outline==
		+	===The Introduction===
		+	*Healthcare.gov was extremely slow and buggy and needed to be fixed.
		+	===The Problems===
		+	*Site's uptime rate is 91%
		+	*On Healthcare.gov’s first day, six people successfully used it to sign up for health insurance.
		+	*'''This sparked the Tech Surge - the beginning of the Marketplace Lite'''
		+	*