For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed.
This summer we took a hard look at 26 high priority projects that were either over budget, behind schedule, or at high risk for the kinds of problems that too often plague our large IT efforts. We completed the review of two projects in October, and this week, we announced the results from our review of the next 16 projects.
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One project has been terminated entirely, as the agency decided the project was too troubled to continue.
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For seven projects we have accelerated delivery of meaningful functionality.
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For eight projects, we’ve rescoped the projects back to increase the likelihood of success and reduced budgets in the process.
The bottom line is that we’ve reduced lifecycle cost by $1.3 billion, and cut the time for delivery of functionality down by more than half, from two to three years down to an average of 8 months.
In reviewing 38 total projects, we have significantly accelerated delivery in 12 projects, with increased functionality coming online every few quarters rather than every few years, and reduced the scope or terminated 15 others, achieving a total of $3 billion in lifecycle budget reductions.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/10/saving-money-government-it
Kirsten Gillibrand Kit Bond Lamar Alexander Lindsey Graham Lisa Murkowski
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