{"id":28374,"date":"2012-06-19T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/yet-another-massive-government-tech-project-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong.html"},"modified":"2012-06-19T13:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:38:40","slug":"yet-another-massive-government-tech-project-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/yet-another-massive-government-tech-project-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another massive government tech project goes horribly, horribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another massive government tech project goes horribly, horribly wrong<\/b><\/p>\n

Scope creep, insistence on a big bang roll-out, more scope creep, different customers demanding different things which the project insisted on trying to achieve, still more scope creep, a project that encompasses a decade and a half of radically changing technology after betting on a tech solution that was immature … yeah, what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

As the acquisition manager put it: "To be specific, the problem is rooted in the way project leaders defined 'better' over a decade and a half. They seemed to mistake it for a synonym of 'more.' How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger. Engineers continuously added features and functions and capabilities on paper, all of which made the design worse and made the users wait. Vaporware much?"<\/i><\/p>\n

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