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Title: "Let me know when it's finished, will you?"
Author: Alan Lenton
Date: 28 October 2006 16:04:49 +01:00 or Sat, 28 October 2006 16:04:49 +01:00
Summary: [28-10-2006] The UK government has no idea when some of its IT projects will finish - let alone how much they will cost!
Body: The UK government, on the other hand, is definitely not in line for a gold star. It recently revealed that its major IT projects are running 17 years late... And this is just the projects for which the government can make estimates.
Take, for instance, (as The Register did) the tax department's 'modernisation' of its computer system for taxing employed workers. The Treasury said the project started last February, but it had no idea when it was due to finish, or how much it might cost!
I definitely want the opportunity to bid for one of these projects - the phrase 'gravy train' comes to mind.
In the meantime, detention for the Brit government, and write out one thousand times, "I must remember to beware of geeks bearing gifts."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/14/it_tyranny/
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