4/28/2019 Chart of Study
Project Failure due to inconsistent
requirements
Universal Credit in U.K
Initial projections for the Universal Credit overhaul put the budget at £2.2 billion.
However, recent findings have shown that it will more likely end up costing
taxpayers £12.8 billion. The biggest problems came from a failure to see what was
going wrong until it was to late. Reports from The Guardian state that there was a
“culture of good news” in which no one could say what was going wrong
World War ||| almost
The Soviet early warning system falsely indicated the United States had launched
five ballistic missiles. Fortunately the Soviet duty officer had a funny feeling in my
gut and reasoned if the U.S. was really attacking they would launch more than five
missiles, so he reported the apparent attack as a false alarm. A bug in the Soviet
software failed to filter out false missile detections caused by sunlight reflecting off
cloud-tops.
Cancer Treatment to Die For
Radiation therapy software by Multidata Systems International miscalculated the
proper dosage, exposing patients to harmful and in some cases fatal levels of
radiation. The physicians, who were legally required to double-check the software
s calculations, were indicted for murder. The software calculated radiation dosage
based on the order in which data was entered, sometimes delivering a double dose
of radiation.
FBI s Virtual Case File project
he FBI scrapped its computer systems overhaul after four years of effort. The
Virtual Case File project was a massive, integrated software system for agents to
share case files and other information. Mismanagement, and an attempt to
build a long-term project on technology that was outdated before the project
completed, resulted in a complex and unusable system. The FBI, the federal law
enforcement of the United States, needed a system to connect all of its branches
trying to solve potentially linked crimes. After four years and $105 million, they
were forced to scrap the program. They didn’t even drop it in favor of another one:
they just gave it up entirely. The problem was due mostly to mismanagement and
software that became outdated before it was even released .
Cargo Management Reengineering
Legislation passed in 2001 created a legal framework for electronic cargo
management secured by Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) using the Gate Keeper
accredited certification authority to deliver registration or certification services to
meet Commonwealth standards. he objectives of the audit were to: examine
Customs' management of the CMR project; and determine whether the ICS and CCF
met project and operational objectives and user capability and functionality
requirements.
Expeditionary Combat Support System
The Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) was a failed enterprise resource
planning software project undertaken by the United States Air Force (USAF)
between 2005 and 2012. The goal of the project was to automate and streamline
the USAF's logistics operations by, in part, consolidating and replacing over 200
separate legacy systems. Development of the system was originally contracted to
the Oracle Corporation in 2005, and was later supervised by Computer Sciences
Corporation. After spending $1.1 billion on its development, the USAF concluded
in 2012 that the system, "has not yielded any significant military capability" and
estimated that, "it would require an additional $1.1B for about a quarter of the
original scope to continue and fielding would not be until 2020." Based on that
conclusion, the USAF canceled the program in November 2012. United States
Senate Committee on Armed Services members Carl Levin and John
McCain characterized the failed project as "one of the most egregious examples of
mismanagement.
e-Borders
e-Borders was an advanced passenger information program which aimed to collect
and store information on passengers and crew entering and leaving the United
Kingdom. Passengers details were to be checked against terror and criminal watch
lists before being stored on the e-borders database. Due to European law on free
movement EU carriers and ports supply information to the UK Border Agency on a
voluntary basis, however in March 2012 Damian Green said that by April e-Borders
would be collecting information an all passengers on 100% of non-EEA flights to the
UK.[1] The information of the passengers and crew was to be collected by the
airline, train operating company, ferry and other carriers and ports and is then
passed on to the e-Borders program via the Carrier Gateway provided by Serco. In
2014 it was announced that the system would be scrapped.
Chart Of Study
Project Title Date Failure Reasons
Universal Credit in the staff costs administrative
U.K costs other benefits
continue as usual, so a
separate resource would
be required for UC."
FBI’s Virtual Case File April 2005 mismanagement and
project software that became
outdated
World War III Almost 1983 A bug in the Soviet
software failed to filter
out false missile
detections caused by
sunlight reflecting off
cloud-tops.
Cancer Treatment to Die 2000 The software calculated
For radiation dosage based
on the order in which
data was entered,
sometimes delivering a
double dose of radiation.
Cargo Management 2005 Not performant.
Reengineering Cost blowout from $33m
to $[Link] users.
Usability problems.
Expeditionary Combat 2012 No significant capabilities
Support System ready on time; would
have cost $1.1bn more
just to get to 1/4 of the
original scope.
e-Borders 2014 A series of delays.
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