&gt; It would indeed be a hard task to define what is &quot;mismanagement&quot;, but spending billions of tax money earned by hard workers all around the country on salaries of incompetent people and fees from incompetent consultancies has at least to be slowed down, if not stopped. As civic responsibility is not enough, a higher level of control is needed.<p>Much of that waste is a product of the &quot;higher level of control&quot; adopted, in law and policy governing government IT work, in response to previous failures, which has mandated additional bureaucratic process, and causes more and more decisions to be made farther and farther from the people with either the specific business knowledge or the specific technical knowledge of the project being executed as more layers of &quot;higher levels of control&quot; are implemented.<p>I am not really sanguine about the prospects of more of the approach that has made things worse suddenly making things better instead.