Lessons learned from government ICT-projects Read full text in English
This audit has been performed on request of the Dutch parliament. Some newspapers mentioned government losses of four to five billion euro's on a yearly bases. These news items caused the parliament to request this audit. The audit has been performed in only 5 months time and consisted of the re-use of earlier performed audits. We have 'recycled' earlier findings about ICT-projects.
- project methodology
- too complex IT projects
- more expensive than budgeted
- need more time than planned
- unstisfactory results
- 'Natural' tendency - on Government side - to opt for big answers to big problems
- ICT providers need such projects, the bigger the better, to survive
- There is nobody who would keep each other in check
- all actors entrap each other
- ICT projects are too complex
- organisational complexity
- technical complexity
- complexity of interests
- difficult cooperation
- incompatibility of existing systems
- lots of changes during planning and implementation