The Government catalogued 191 large projects in 2013 costing around £350b.
Listed below are the top 5 worst offending Departments:
1. NHS - An abandoned NHS patient record system has so far cost the taxpayer nearly £10bn,
2. DWP - The government has increased its initial write-off of a failed IT system for universal credit by £6m to £40.1m, but acknowledged that a further £90m of software is likely to be written down in its value over the next five years
3. MOJ - The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) £127.1m shared services programme, originally due to be completed by 2011/12, is now unlikely to be finished before 2014
4. Home Office - The Home Office’s £424m Application & Enrolment Contract let to CSC was also marked as red, now due to be completed over two years late by November 2014.
5. The Ministry of Defence - had its £5bn Defence Core Network Services marked as red, and also its £1.1bn intelligence surveillance Watchkeeper project
You can't defy the laws of project management
You can't defy the laws of project management
Why did DWP experienced project director select an agile approach to deliver this major new payment system change when the organisation has invested heavily in PRINCE 2 over the past decade?
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