Sunday, September 17, 2017

$75 MILLION OVER BUDGET & IT DOESN'T WORK

Another government IT project is going off the rails, this one intended to issue Canadian passports faster and cheaper than the current system.
The so-called Passport Program Modernization Initiative, launched in 2014, is at least $75 million over budget and well behind schedule.
"From its outset, the complexity … was underestimated," says an internal document, explaining a series of setbacks to the ambitious plan.
"The project management capacity and expertise was insufficient for the complexity and scale of the initiative."

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