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It isn't limited to the council, it's true of almost all government IT projects. The UK government even created a whole project management methodology, Prince2 to try and stop it. It didn't.
Scope creep is the cause and it's also true in this case.
It isn't limited to the council, it's true of almost all government IT projects. The UK government even created a whole project management methodology, Prince2 to try and stop it. It didn't.
Scope creep is the cause and it's also true in this case.
A lot of engineers in council do the Prince2 courses, and they are so happy to get the qualification /rolleyes
What a damning indictment early on in that report:
Out of depth with public private partnership decision
KDC decided that it wanted to explore a public private partnership (PPP) approach,
to keep the debt "off the balance sheet" and to put as much risk as possible on to
the private sector provider.
In my view, this decision took KDC out of its depth. It followed all the right basic
steps when it initially went to the market for advisers and put the project to tender,
but it did not fully understandthe complexity ofwhat it was doing.
Lambs to the slaughter and the ratepayers pay the butchers.
The failure of the council to properly control the project lays with the council.
Exactly.
All these big IT disasters boil down to the owners not controlling the project - poor project management.
It's unlikely that a govt dept or a council would employ a highly skilled project manager.
They just appoint 'Bill' who has worked in the office for 20 years and ''really knows his stuff''.
Nex minit, $100 million wasted.
No problem - they just recover that from ratepayers/tax payers and carry on.
Dairy companies build an entire green field factory for less than $100m.
Look at the new one as you drive South of Auckland.
That is a lot of stainless steel, new trucks plus all custom control systems.
What on earth requires $100m of IT effort???
To track a few thousand rates bills? Just use excell - $100!
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary - Fred Wilson.
Dairy companies build an entire green field factory for less than $100m.
Look at the new one as you drive South of Auckland.
That is a lot of stainless steel, new trucks plus all custom control systems.
What on earth requires $100m of IT effort???
To track a few thousand rates bills? Just use excell - $100!
It cost a bit more than $100m, just over $200m in fact. But the point is reasonable.
having lied about his super-sized spending plans for the supercity
brown doesn't want it democratically rubbed in his face
that he prefers submission
Auckland Mayor Len Brown opposed the idea of a referendum last month, when an advisory group presented the council with options of either a motorway toll averaging $2 or higher fuel taxes and rates, saying he expected tens of thousands of people to make their views clear in submissions to the long-term budget.
I agree with no referendum.
Just get on with it already; start bringing in user pays.
Our biggest mistake was removing the bridge toll all those decades ago.
"It's a change to the social fabric of Auckland if every time a car goes on the motorway it clicks up a charge," she told the Herald.
"That's a different Auckland to the Auckland I live in now and the Auckland I want to live in."
NZ has voted for record immigration, 80% of it into Akl.
Time to pay the piper.
I agree with no referendum.
Just get on with it already; start bringing in user pays.
Our biggest mistake was removing the bridge toll all those decades ago.
NZ has voted for record immigration, 80% of it into Akl.
Time to pay the piper.
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