Poor contracts are definitely a problem. The rest (IMHO) is a combination of science and art, and when you have enormous projects then:
a) You simply can’t hire 500 “a-team” people b) There is way more complexity and requirements than people imagine in the beginning c) Everything takes a long time, due to lag times in communications and co-ordination overhead when you have hundreds of people working on a project And sometimes a, b and c end up being so bad you have a huge IT debacle. I’m working on an 80k user platform consolidation/outsourcing deal (google SOEasy IDA) and it’s immensely complex. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 2010 7:38 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] HealthSMART problems On 23 June 2010 09:00, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net<mailto:g...@mira.net>> wrote: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/computers-could-cause-deaths-warn-doctors-20100621-ys9i.html http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/hospital-shunned-over-computer-revelations-20100623-yw22.html In The Age newspaper yesterday with a follow-up today. Does anyone here know what sort of a system HealthSMART is or what sort of platforms, tools and technologies were involved? Was anyone here involved? (you can tell us, we’re like doctors in here). No idea on the tools & tech front, but I think the recent public spending IT debacles (Queensland is a world leader in this regard) are more down to a combination of crap contracts and poor vendor/project management. David.
