{"id":4549,"date":"2006-11-15T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T09:04:46","slug":"how-not-to-run-a-national-it-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2006\/11\/how-not-to-run-a-national-it-project\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to run a national IT project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slashdot has an article on the Biggest IT Disaster Ever.  This is on the National Healthcare Service or NHS&#8217;s project called National Programme for IT, or NPfIT.  Some call it &#8220;sleepwalking toward disaster&#8221;.The aim is &#8220;an electronic care record for patients and to connect 30,000 GPs to 300 hospitals, providing secure and audited access to these records by authorised health professionals&#8221;.  I guess they don&#8217;t believe in starting small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I have been under specialist care at a large local hospital (SG) for the past 20 years.  My records are in a file about an inch thick.  My &#8220;data growth&#8221; is already at minimal since the specialist for the annual review only adds about 5 lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some posters on  <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/11\/14\/1747216&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a> have pointed having the following keywords in any project is a warning sign for a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>transform<br>\nAccenture<br>\nGartner<br>\ngovernment<br>\nMicrosoft<br>\nmanagement consultant<br>\nComputer Sciences Corp.<br>\nin the world<br>\ncomprehensive<br>\nleading-edge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tend to agree, transform, comprehensive, leading-edge are usually bad for government projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about it here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baselinemag.com\/article2\/0,1540,2058178,00.asp\">Prescription for an I.T. Disaster?<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPfIT\">Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot has an article on the Biggest IT Disaster Ever. This is on the National Healthcare Service or NHS&#8217;s project called National Programme for IT, or NPfIT. Some call it &#8220;sleepwalking toward disaster&#8221;.The aim is &#8220;an electronic care record for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}