Tuesday, 3 November 2009

The project failure list is getting longer and longer

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Plans for the £234m National Offender Management Information System system, known as C-NOMIS, began in 2004 with the aim of allowing the prison and probation services in England and Wales to follow offenders "end-to-end" through the criminal justice system.

But by July 2007 the project was two years behind schedule and its estimated
costs had increased to £690m. It was later abandoned.

The committee's report finds that staff "grossly underestimated" the likely cost and neither ministers nor senior management at the Home Office, nor even the project board, were aware of problems until May 2007.

"There was not even a minimum level of competence in the planning and execution
of this project.

"This project has been a shambles."

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