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government IT systems

problems and solutions

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  1. [2015-12-dd] # 4870 BC government IT systems - CREATE a summary report of government waste in IT systems development, a recent series of articles in the vancouver sun reported on a number of BC government IT projects over the last several years and examined some of the problems that these projects incurred. Problems including Cost overuns, delays, missing features, unfixed bugs/issues, system crashes/outages and more .... . It also looks at some of the changes that the government is implementing to avoid experiencing the same issues in its current IT projects and future projects going forward. This articles SUMMARIZES the findings in those articles and serves as a foundation for a new way of doing things going forward on new projects. 
  2. ] a proposal for some changes - 

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developer implementation

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  1.  ] review project - 
    1. ] overview 
    2. ] conclusions
    3. ] proposal 
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[-notes]

  1. ] FIND + SITE = explainer/article, very clean,  text based, 12-15,  ( check ] growth.supply ] javelin ) 

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[previously]

  1. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] # # - CREATE-prj-bc gov (health)systems - problems & solutions
    2. ] SUMMARY - article(s) - for a number(8+) of government IT systems that are over budget, behind schedule, failed, failing
    3. ] SOLUTIONS - IDEA = SITE join me in building an open source system 
  2. [2015-12-20][00:00] NEW task IN ADD REF
    1. [2015-12] BC AG - Status of governments general computing controls - ] 70% audited dont meet self assessed standards, ] 600 systems outsourced 
    2. [2015-08] BC AG - Panorama Audit - x] CC panorama # 4798
    3. [2015-03] BC AG - Integrated Case Management Audit x] CC ICM # 4854
    4. [2014-05] BC AG - Value for money on procured professional services  - ] review 
  3. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. x] # # - UPDATE-article # 4854 - find - success stories nobody is talking about - x] added quote from BC CIO Bette jo hughes re 51 "successful" projects that are all on time, on budget, ....
  4. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. x] # # - FIND - comment - "we were a pariah" - about a successfull health IT project, small company, small project, x] FOUND - tough b/c user vandudey EDIT it out, google search for term on site, turned up a cached version, x] ADDed - comments mined - # 4854 major BC IT projects ...
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[currently]

  1. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] # 5856 - panorama research - 
    2. x] + ref to british system screw up
  2. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] ellis1884uk 10 points 5 days ago  - IT Solution Architect here; here's how it goes for most of the time, the Business is Sold some solution/software/hardware from a salesman in a shiny suit and a powerpoint for which they do not know how it works under the hood, they procure it and hand it off to IT and say "make it work". If the business engages IT early on, projects are usually successful. Basically, you want a cake but only give me an egg as the sole ingredient. This happens at every organisation, Government ones are some of the worst because they have big budgets and lack of understanding and  You think 100m over budget is bad, the UK has 5bn GBP worth of projects going tits up (and this is just within Healthcare) 
    2. ] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/08/5bn_nhs_it_projects_high_risk_failure_hscic/

[next]

  1. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] # # - REVIEW article - [2015-12-15 ] The province and computers: Finding out what works and why - 
  2. [00:00] auditor not finished examining huge IT projects 
    1. ] 2015-11-20 - http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn+palmer+auditor+finished+examining+health/11530525/story.html 
    2. ] BC AG audit of IT systems - x] icm, x] panorama, ] ??
  3. [00:00] AG faults security
    1. ] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/auditor+general+faults+province+computer+security/11591798/story.html
  4. [00:00] NEW task IN ADD [REF]
    1. ] http://bctf.ca/ - BC teachers federation
    2. ] http://www.bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Public/Issues/Technology/MyEdBC-PolicyIssues.pdf - bctfa report on myEDbc - new data mining application for students
  5. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] g.qry = myEdBC
    2. ] [2015-12-20] # # - New BC gov school enrollment software causing headaches 
    3. ] no class lists available, ] very slow, ] down/outages, ] doesnt meet 'teachers' needs
    4. ] comments - Freddie Cash - @Ken McLeod MyEd is an off-the-shelf product, produced by Follett, and then customised to work with the BC education setup. It's not a built-from-the-ground-up system. 
    5. ] comments - wildebeast - @papagallo  the company that supported Bcesis was sold to (follett), they stopped supporting Bcesis which meant everyone had to by into Myed...and it's been one headache after another  ] And I had just started using Bcesis to it's full potential...it actually wasn't that bad.  ] I could bang off a pdf file academic report in seconds, attach it to an email and send it to a parent....boom!!! the kid shows up the next day with a much more "focussed attitude" 
    6. ] http://www.fes.follett.com/ - vendor who built the off the shelf software that is the foundation of myEdBC. sw is customized to meet the needs of 
  6. [00:00] NEW task IN 
    1. ] # # - CREATE-article# # - SUMMARY-eHealth-records 
    2. ] + REF - http://www.longwoods.com/content/20886

[RELATED] (timeline)

  1. [2015-03-31] by Dirk Meissner @theglobeandmail -  B.C. auditor rips performance of government’s $182-million computer system - the BC.gov'sIntegretad Case Management(ICM) system (not panorama), also incomplete, doesn't work better, is slower, 
    1. ] Carol Bellringer said the province spent seven years and $182 million trying to modernize aging computer systems but failed to replace two thirds of the old system.
    2. ] “The ICM project did not fully replace legacy systems as initially planned,” Bellringer said in a report. “At project completion, about one third of the legacy systems had been replaced. This means that a number of systems characterized as antiquated and expensive to maintain must continue to run.”
    3. ] Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell said “We have met our key objective and successfully implemented a very modern technology platform,” 
  2. [2015-11-20] SRC = news #5
    1. ] The auditor general advised the committee that her staff is well into an audit of Cerner, a massive computer system now under development to manage information within provincial hospitals and community health facilities. 
    2. ] The auditor general reckons Cerner to be “eight to 10 times the size of Panorama,” with all that might entail in terms of complexity, costs and opportunities for things to terribly wrong.
  3. [2015-12-04] 
    1. ] # # - healthcare.gov (US) - what went wrong
    2. ] # # - fixing healthcare.gov  - art group, vids by 1], 2] , 
    3. ] # # - us digital services - new inititiave by presidetns office, open source, 
  4. [2015-12-05]
    1. ] # 4832 hospital run - oss for hospital management

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ID: 5500

NAME: bc-gov-systems

DESCRIPTION: 5500

START DATE TIME: 2015-08-20 10:20:55

EST DURATION: 01:00:00

END DATE TIME: 2015-08-20 11:20:55

STATUS: To-Do

PRIORITY: -5

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