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Re: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:12:04 -0700
________________________________________ From: Steve Peterson [steve () zpfe com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:51 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau Dave -- I'm both a software consulting, working in the private sector overseeing technology projects, and an elected official with experience overseeing even larger technology projects, so I've gotten to see many projects succeed and fail. There's no difference between the public and private sector in regard to the reasons for technology project failure. We just don't hear as much about the ones that occur in the private sector. Projects in either sector are likely to fail if: . they pretend to know all of the requirements up front . they pretend to know the complete solution up front . they have program management that is not committed to seeing the project through to completion . they have stakeholders/sponsors who aren't sufficiently involved in supervising the project on a regular basis . they don't have go/no-go milestones that force the project to demonstrate value on a regular basis . they don't control their vendors . they don't have a functioning project management culture S ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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