On 08/12/2016 11:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
There have been a bunch of headlines about the new federal payroll system "Phoenix" is screwing up a lot. This article does a reasonable job of describing how the problems happened.
<http://www.itworldcanada.com/blog/phoenix-payroll-report-by-michael-wernick-the-clerk-of-the-privy-council/385370> --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Interesting.
I have a slightly different take. Through my wife's work I have had a chance to see lots of government projects (mostly Ontario) and I have come to the conclusion that the insistance of project managers to go with safe products like Oracle and Microsoft and Cisco are the reason lots of projects are off the rails. Big companies know how to bill and charge for changes but the products and services seldom come close to the sales pitch. But nobody will get fired for buying IBM/Cisco/Oracle/Microsoft..... -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||