When Projects Go Bad: Australian Census Bureau vs IBM
Brian NaylorProject Manager| Visier SolutionsVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
If anyone is looking for a textbook case of poor scope and stakeholder management, there's been a storm brewing in Australia with IBM, who were recently hired to revamp the Australian Census Bureau website for their recent census. Australian's crashed the site on the first day, and it is yet to get back up and running. Much finger pointing has ensued, read more about it here:
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
Thanks for sharing that, Brian.
Yet another government website gone wrong. This seems like a perfect problem for project managers to solve. I hope meaningful lessons can be learned, shared, and applied before the next big mistake makes headlines. Saving Changes...
Prabhu MissierFounder/Director Software Engineering| Samvit Software SolutionsMelbourne, Vic, Australia
This was allegedly a DoS attack. Knowing the culture at IBM Australia and the way they handle projects I can safely say they would get defensive about the whole issue and portray themselves as above reproach. Hopefully some accurate data would come out which would enable some valuable lessons to be learnt.
At the end of the day the Australian government should learn to look beyond brand names and look for vendors who are more agile and in tune with today's Internet Security landscape. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Thank you for sharing. It is not usual to find this type of things. What is important, in my case, is to read carefully the publication and try to understand what went wrong mainly taking into account that it will be limited information and words like "good" or "bad" have lot of ambiguity. Saving Changes...
