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10 Terms

1. Uptime rate: Uptime is a computer industry term for the time during which a computer is operational. (Rouse, 2005)
2. Supercomputers: A Supercomputer is a high performance computing machine designed to have extremely fast processing speeds. (Christensson, 2009)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. The Tech Surge: A group of Silicon Valley developers who rescued the website from disorganized contractors and bureaucratic mismanagement. (Robinson, 2015)
6. Client software: The software that acts as the interface between the client computer an the server. (Christensson, 2006)
7. The waterfall: A sequential design strategy. A central calendar - the Gantt chart to end all Gantt charts. (Robinson, 2015)
8. Responsive (In terms of Web Design): This is a type of web design that provides a customized viewing experience for different browser platforms. (Christensson, 2013)
9. Cloud: The term "cloud"comes from early network diagrams, in which the image of a cloud was used to indicate a large network, such as a WAN. (Christensson, 2012)
10. Static Website: A static website contains Web Pages with fixed content. Each page is coded in HTML and displays the same information to every visitor. (Christensson, 2009)

Term References

1. Rouse, Margaret. "What is Uptime and Downtime?" WhatIs.com, Sept. 2005, whites.techtarget.com/definition/uptime-and-downtime.
2. Christensson, P. (2009, September 25). Supercomputer Definition. Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
3. "What is a Gantt Chart?" Gantt, 2017m www.gantt.com/
4. 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/
5. 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/
6. Christensson, P. (2006). Client Definition. Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
7. 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/
8. Christensson, P. (2013, August 20). Responsive Web Design Definition. Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
9. Christensson, P. (2012, May 30). Cloud Definition. Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com
10. Christensson, P. (2009, June 12). Static Website Definition. Retrieved 2017, Nov 10, from https://techterms.com

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