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2016 Postmortem

alcibiades_mystery

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2. ORCA: Usability and load testing at release

Reply to Tom Poll Master (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:49 PM

Nov 2012

Un. Befucking. Lievable.

They ran their first mass use scenario on election day.

On election day!

These people spent $800 million in just in-house costs.

They never ran a usability test for even a sample of their eventual 30,000 users. They never user tested their instruction manual or interface. They never load tested the system.

They just went live on election day.

What a hilarious catastrophe.

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How ORCA was defeated by Narwhal & Dreamcatcher [View all] Tom Poll Master Nov 2012 OP

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ORCA: Usability and load testing at release alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 #2

Kids, most likely. Lots of words and concepts, but probably not much real-world experience aletier_v Nov 2012 #4

I kept getting mailings from the Romney campaign RomneyLies Nov 2012 #3

Same with my friend oswaldactedalone Nov 2012 #5

They eventually stopped sending us postage-paid return envelopes for donations Retrograde Nov 2012 #6

2016 should be fun with both sides having huge databases on us >.> NCLefty Nov 2012 #7