In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
It's amazing how often giant IT projects like these go off the rails. Exploding costs and garbage implementations. If you start the sentence with: "A 5+ year government IT project that cost over 100 million-" I already know how the story ends.<p>How do we improve this common scenario? What are the root causes?<p>The common themes are:<p>1. Lack of technical project competence at the decision maker level.<p>2. Scope creep. Where the one true system has to do everything.<p>3. A 'one-pass' approach where everything is expected to be delivered as a working system at the end of the project.<p>Even fixing two of these gives us a solid shot at a successful project.