[GTALUG] better than average article on why the federal payroll system is a mess

[Alvin Starr]

On 08/12/2016 11:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> There have been a bunch of headlines about the new federal payroll
> system "Phoenix" is screwing up a lot.  This article does a reasonable
> job of describing how the problems happened.
>
> <http://www.itworldcanada.com/blog/phoenix-payroll-report-by-michael-wernick-the-clerk-of-the-privy-council/385370>
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Interesting.

I have a slightly different take.

Through my wife's work I have had a chance to see lots of government 
projects (mostly Ontario) and I have come to the conclusion that the 
insistance of project managers to go with safe products like Oracle and 
Microsoft and Cisco are the reason lots of projects are off the rails.
Big companies know how to bill and charge for changes but the products 
and services seldom come close to the sales pitch.

But nobody will get fired for buying IBM/Cisco/Oracle/Microsoft.....

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