In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I think everyone who has ever worked on a project that has gone off the rails should be keeping the developers spending their days, nights, and weekends trying to rescue healthcare.gov in mind. There has been a lot of finger pointing and analysis and direct attacks against this project. A lot of this criticism has been levvied by politicians and pundits who most likely have never been involved in a large project of this type. Not being involved myself I won't pretend to have any of the answers to how this project ended up how it did.