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These projects are incredibly complex that fail for a variety of reasons, most of them to do with politics, conflicting requirements, too many stakeholders and
by martijn_himself 8y ago
These projects are incredibly complex that fail for a variety of reasons, most of them to do with politics, conflicting requirements, too many stakeholders and decision makers, and too many people with little to no interest in or grasp of the technology involved.
First and foremost the lesson should be that the army should have its own dedicated IT department.
Also, any company peddling 'digital transformation' should be a red flag to start with.
- arethuza 8y ago"army should have its own dedicated IT department" I'm sure they did at one point - I remember hearing a talk at a conference from someone who handled their salary side of things maybe 5/6 years ago. He was talking about the difficulties they had in managing master data (e.g. how many people actually work for them) and came across rather well.
- martijn_himself 8y agoThat sound really interesting, I'm sure there are lots of subtleties to working for the armed forces that wouldn't become apparent to an outside contractor that would come in even if it was for multiple years. Also these big contractors would usually customize existing (CRM) products to deliver these projects, many of them may not be a good fit.
- pjc50 8y agoThis is the sort of thing that "gov.uk" are extremely good at handling, when they are allowed to.