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| National Offender database
project is a checklist of ‘what not to do’, says MP |
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The National Offender Management's
Service's computer system failed in 7 of the 8 most common ways |
Commenting on the National Audit Office report on the National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS), South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, a member of the Commons public accounts committee said : “This project is a check list of what not to do in a government IT project.” |
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“C-NOMIS was affected by seven of the eight most common causes of project failure, even though the Home Office’s Programme and Project Management Support Unit issued a certificate in May 2005, as part of the project approval process, purporting to certify that C-NOMIS did not suffer from the common causes of failure.” [see paragraph 22, page 8 of the NAO report]. “These are systemic failures, which go much deeper than one badly botched project. The system for scrutinising and challenging government departments through the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is simply not working.” “The OGC may come up with sensible advice but it is not taken seriously enough by government departments, which are allowed to ignore its findings. This cannot continue. We should either give the OGC more power to do its job properly, or get rid of it and start again.”
12 March 2009 |
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