I'm reading the GAO's report on the Department of Education's FAFSA software debacle. It's basically the Greatest Hits of Waterfall Software Development.
(Disclaimer: I played a small role in oversight of this on the Biden-Harris Transition Team, for which my contribution was a single memo, and had some involvement in helping to deal with the problems that resulted from this failure, back in the spring.) https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-107783.pdf
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