Computerworld - Half a million dollars spent on scrapped IT project
If this isn't a clear reason for using agile based methodologies then I don't know what is:
The Department of Building and Housing has been criticised by Parliament's finance and expenditure select committee for cancelling a project to register licensed builders online when $653,000 had already been spent on it.
The project, which was aimed at allowing potential clients to identify qualified builders, was abandoned, according to department chief executive Katrina Bach, because "issues arose during the design phase in relation to scope and delivery", according to a report on the committee meeting in the Independent Financial Review.
- Computerworld > Half a million dollars spent on scrapped IT project
$653,000 (New Zealand Dollars) spent and the project never left the design phase - I just don't get it. I wonder if the design documents are kept by Unisys or whether the DoBH have them to pass onto any subsequent developers. It would be interesting to read the original tender document as the description from the Computer World article don't paint the system as overly complex:
Tender documents for the abandoned project stated "the main purpose of the register is to enable members of the public and building consent authorities to locate a licensed building practitioner and determine the status and history of the practitioner's licence".
Sounds like a fairly simple search engine/database lookup system - but then, the devil's always in the details.