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NOMIS, No Hit: Misadventure in Government IT
Ian Whittingham, PMP is director of Calixo Consulting, providing project and program management expertise from initiation through to implementation, covering business transformation, workflow process re-engineering, and enterprise data integration. He is a regular contributor to ProjectManagement.com. You may contact Ian directly at [email protected].
One of the cardinal virtues of democratic forms of government is that deliberations and decisions are open to public scrutiny. No matter what rank or position politicians hold, their words--if not their actions--are available to all of us as a part of the public record. Even the conversations of Lords and Ladies are not exempt, as the following exchange demonstrates.
On January 26, 2007 Baroness Anelay of St. Johns asked Lord Bassam of Brighton whether the Custody-National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) had been implemented at Her Majesty’s Prison Albany on December 10, 2006, and when the review of implementation would be published.
In reply, Lord Bassam noted that the first release of C-NOMIS was “very successfully implemented, as planned, in the HM Prison Service designated early adopter” (i.e. at Albany prison). Further, that “initial performance monitoring and feedback from users” had been positive. He also noted that the first “post-implementation and lesson learnt reviews” would be conducted in February 2007 and these would “inform progress on the C-NOMIS project.” However, he added, there were no plans to publish the results of these reviews.
Baroness Anelay then asked when C-NOMIS would be implemented by the U.K. National Probation Service in …
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