[Sigia-l] Mother of all examples

[Richard Law]

Actually, there have been cases where large corporate IT projects have 
been scraped after having spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 
development money. There are two main differences, these stories don't 
make the news [It's not good for the share price of the company's 
stock. ;.) ] and they are not held accountable by Congress or the US 
public.

I would guess that requirements gathering process was insufficient and 
no one at the higher levels of the project was representing user 
experience / design or had any real experience with designing such a 
complex system.

*****
Richard


On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Taylor, Brett wrote:

> My concern is; how did 170mil get squandered before someone decided the
> system was too cluncky to use. Your right, heads should role and this
> should be a clear indication of government waist. The sad part, someone
> will come out with, it was all in the effort to make america more safe,
> so we shouldn't think about the money, but that we're trying to get it
> right.
>
> If this was corporate environment, it would have never gotten this far
>
> Brett
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
> Behalf Of James Melzer
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 9:12 AM
> To: SIGIA-L
> Cc: Listera
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Mother of all examples
>
> It is hard to overstate the seriousness of the FBI's failure in this
> project.  Besides the fact that taxpayer money was squandered, there is
> a very real risk that a lot of Americans are going to die because of 
> it.
> It is shocking that heads haven't rolled from the cabinet level on down
> as a result of it.
>
> ~ James
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:44:59 -0600, Donna Fritzsche
> <donnamarie at amichi.info> wrote:
>> This article doesn't state it, but in the Chicago news they said that
>> apparently it was too clunky to use.
>> Donna
>>
>>
>> At 1:27 AM -0500 1/14/05, Listera wrote:
>>> Next time somebody mentions requirements, budgets, schedules, app
>>> design, etc., read, weep and work a few extra hours in 2005 to make
>>> up the difference with your tax contributions:
>>>
>>> "The Federal Bureau of Investigation is on the verge of scrapping a
>>> $170 million computer overhaul that is considered critical to the
>>> campaign against terrorism but has been riddled with technical and
>>> planning problems, F.B.I. officials said on Thursday."
>>>
>>> "I did not get what I envisioned" from the project, the senior
>>> official acknowledged. But he said the F.B.I. today had a better
>>> understanding of its computer needs and limitations as a result of
>>> the effort." The lesson we have learned from this $170 million is
> invaluable," he said.
>>>
>>> <http://snipurl.com/c03c>
>>>
>>> Incredible!
>>>
>>> Ziya
>>> Nullius in Verba
>>>
>>>
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