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But they are being fined at E1000's a day. In the UK we now have projects forced to go through regular if not frequent traffic light reviews - a panel of actual experts reviews the project - i think it was one such thing that killed the NHS network project (12 billion over spend). one panel, one review. saved money.

i suspect the french gov will have put something similar in place, but i do agree with the final paragraph of the piece - it's probably a corrupt practise not top management stupidity.



> The company recovers daily penalties by billing ever-increasing change requests to the government. The year is 2008.

I hope you didn't miss that sentence. It's the irony that probably lives in every government project.


> a panel of actual experts reviews the project

Except, as these things go, what is being reviewed is whether the projects meets its arbitrarily nonsensical, self contradictory requirements and whether all 1528 required process artifacts have been properly archived in manila folders, not whether the project makes sense or follows basic economic principles.


killed AFTER 12 billion over spend, not very effective


Better than having it blunder on for another 5 years and 10 billion without achiving anything.


While its effectiveness is questionable, not killing it would be an ever bigger failure.


that killed the NHS network project (12 billion over spend)

No money to give nurses a pay rise but IT consultants laughing all the way to the bank. And the same consulting companies still have their noses in the trough.

Same story at the MoD.




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