To: UK Ministers for Innovation and Technology, and for Defence Procurement
Stop wasting £billions on farcical and doomed technology projects!
- For effective and efficient management and engineering of technology projects, devise legislation to impose formal Competence Management, based on objective criteria, on procurer and supplier organisations.
- Ensure technical competence permeates all levels (director/CTO, management, engineering).
- Ensure incompetent buzzword-bandits are removed from positions of technical authority.
Why is this important?
Over several decades, procurer and supplier organisations have combined to squander £billions of UK taxpayers money on techno-junk. In this regard, UK defence and government IT projects have been notoriously shambolic for decades, as indicated in:
https://ukcampaign4change.com/2022/01/27/43-years-of-state-it-project-disasters-and-theyre-still-happening/
The Post Office Horizon scandal is a prime example of unreliable technology causing years of mayhem and human misery. Other corroborating factors to consider include:
https://ukcampaign4change.com/2022/01/27/43-years-of-state-it-project-disasters-and-theyre-still-happening/
The Post Office Horizon scandal is a prime example of unreliable technology causing years of mayhem and human misery. Other corroborating factors to consider include:
- The Horizon statutory inquiry uncovered weak leadership and engineering incompetence at ICL/Fujitsu and Post Office.
- ICL/Fujitsu was involved in other profligate techno-farces such as Lorenzo (NHS) and Libra (MoJ).
- Circa 2007, our assessment of ICL/Fujitsu did not find practices necessary for engineering dependable systems.
- The Post Office NBIT project, due to replace Horizon, has turned farcical, as exposed again by Computer Weekly. Leopards and spots!
- For Logica, another UK systems-house, our team devised a process for the recruitment of over 200 software engineers, based on objective competence criteria.
- To quote Elon Musk about repeated failures at Boeing Starliner, "Too many non-technical managers at Boeing."
Competent (qualified, trained and experienced) human assets, complying with lifecycle standards (ISO, IEC), is the only viable solution for technological progress and sustainable growth.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Human-Assets-Human-Asset-Evaluation-Human-Asset-Allen/229df82518968933a301a9dac9f05e8344e72c26
Time for competence management to be the rule (of law) for UK government departments, not the exception!
How it will be delivered
Email the ministers!
