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There is issues with the federal exchange(s), we know this, this is not a thread intended to explain the whys or where fores or to trash it, just thought I would share some examples I found ( and this is far from the only ones) where in the government, even with more $$ and infinitely more time ( with a longer implementation time-line) , in a closed environment, tries to manage the creation or overhaul of systems that, well, encompass so much on so many different fronts.
I’ll let the source spell it out, there are 2 examples...the Air Force failure is particularly troublesome as a I think a case can be made they are the most quantitatively .....sophisticated(?) branch managing more complicated systems in number etc....
Is this were we are heading? Time will tell…
The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System was an enterprise program of the Business Transformation Agency's Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive, within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). As the largest enterprise resource planning program ever implemented for human resources, DIMHRS (pronounced dime-ers) was to subsume or replace over 90 legacy systems. The first phase of DIMHRS was expected to roll out first to the U.S. Army in 2009 and bring all payroll and personnel functions for the Army into one integrated web-based system. The U.S. Air Force, United States Navy and the Marines were expected to roll out in that order after the Army had implemented it. After numerous delays, technical problems, and other issues, in February 2010, the DoD cancelled the program, after 10 years and $850 million.
Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and..
Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: December 8, 2012
IN policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed “wicked.”
For the United States Air Force, installing a new software system has certainly proved to be a wicked problem. Last month, it canceled a six-year-old modernization effort that had eaten up more than $1 billion. When the Air Force realized that it would cost another $1 billion just to achieve one-quarter of the capabilities originally planned — and that even then the system would not be fully ready before 2020 — it decided to decamp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/t...ver-software-modernization-project.html?_r=1&
I’ll let the source spell it out, there are 2 examples...the Air Force failure is particularly troublesome as a I think a case can be made they are the most quantitatively .....sophisticated(?) branch managing more complicated systems in number etc....
Is this were we are heading? Time will tell…
The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System was an enterprise program of the Business Transformation Agency's Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive, within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). As the largest enterprise resource planning program ever implemented for human resources, DIMHRS (pronounced dime-ers) was to subsume or replace over 90 legacy systems. The first phase of DIMHRS was expected to roll out first to the U.S. Army in 2009 and bring all payroll and personnel functions for the Army into one integrated web-based system. The U.S. Air Force, United States Navy and the Marines were expected to roll out in that order after the Army had implemented it. After numerous delays, technical problems, and other issues, in February 2010, the DoD cancelled the program, after 10 years and $850 million.
Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and..
Billion-Dollar Flop: Air Force Stumbles on Software Plan
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: December 8, 2012
IN policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed “wicked.”
For the United States Air Force, installing a new software system has certainly proved to be a wicked problem. Last month, it canceled a six-year-old modernization effort that had eaten up more than $1 billion. When the Air Force realized that it would cost another $1 billion just to achieve one-quarter of the capabilities originally planned — and that even then the system would not be fully ready before 2020 — it decided to decamp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/t...ver-software-modernization-project.html?_r=1&