Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
1. Curtail the current development effort.
2. Determine what is needed to sustain the existing eForms system, until the full requirements for FEAM can be determined and developed.
3. Make the necessary changes to eForms to stabilize the infrastructure with the ever-increasing user population.
4. Determine if we can re-introduce the Form 3 to the current eForms, through load testing and other system validations.
5. Perform an assessment of the ATF and industry requirements for FEAM.
6. Secure required funding for a new FEAM initiative, based on the revised requirements.
7. Restart the FEAM initiative, to include industry participation during the requirements gathering and testing processes.
This is the best part. Obviously written by a government droid, where there were 10-20 meetings, attended by more government droids and doughnut eaters, about the exact numbering and ordering of the steps, and everything finally came to an agreement. But not once did some one actually ask someone in industry how they would handle or do it.

To reiterate:

1) Stop all development so we can redo the contract with the prime
2) Do a requirements analysis on the existing eForms system - and keep doing requirements analysis until we develop a ton of requirements for the new system (hint, if we keep looking at requirements for the old system then they really arent applicable to the new system). Also note, step 1 where we will already do a contract with a Prime to develop the system - which means we give them money to develop a system that we don't have any requirements for yet.
3) Make changes to a system that we have already said we are going to stop all development on (make sense)
4) Do more requirement analysis on a system that we have previously determined has failed, to see if we can make changes to the system we have already stopped all development on (step 1)
5) We are going to do another round of requirement analysis, but this time we are going to actually ask people closely connected to the existing system and have an interest in it. But remember, we have already started paying the Prime to develop the system that we don't have the requirements on yet.
6) We are going to go get funding for all the stuff we already did in steps 1-5. This time we are going to ask for more staff so we can implement it 'correctly' (see steps 1-5)
7) We are going to throw away everything we did in steps 1-6 and start over, but this time we are going to ask industry to evaluate the old system and give us feedback (on the system we have already decommissioned)