The U.K. government's Computer-National Offender Management Service project ran into trouble last August when it was halted due to cost overruns. Following a review, the original scope was recently abandoned amid criticism for the way in which the government handled it. C-NOMIS is the latest in a number of high profile U.K. government IT project failures. What can you learn from it? Read on.
Here's some practical advice to survive (and potentially succeed) managing public sector projects.
Enterprise project management is rarely the same across different entities; however, there are common denominators that collectively define the new age of EPM in the public sector.
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain |
