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Struggling With Major IT Projects

Posted by michael on from the get-a-bigger-hammer dept.

Ant writes "This article discusses the poor track record of IT projects undertaken by the U.S. government, and says experts blame poor planning, rapid industry advances and the massive scope of some complex projects whose price tags can run into billions of dollars at U.S. agencies with tens of thousands of employees. 'There are very few success stories,' said Paul Brubaker, former deputy chief information officer (CIO) at the Pentagon. 'Failures are very common, and they've been common for a long time.'... Seen on Blue's News."

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  1. Look at who has the problem. by BCW2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since when has anything in the US Govt. been managed in an efficient or intelligent way? I doubt if anyone in Washington can spell efficient. Bureaucrats are affraid to make real decisions, they might be held accountable. This is true of every Govt. job from mid level on down, and to some degree in the upper levels. They just try to generate enough paper to justify their existance, none of it has to make any sense or actually accomplish anything.

    efficiency + Government = a bigger oxymoron than Military Intelligence.

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  2. Medical informatics by frankmu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    great. Now Bush is going to create a National Patient record system with this track record.

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