Category: IT projects
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Goddamn Murphy!!
It started innocently: waiting for my bus after work, at 4:30PM. Nothing happened for 45 minutes, even though the bus was supposed to be arriving in approx. 15 minutes. So I phoned a friend, in hopes of reaching him so that he could check the Internet for timetables. No answer. I phoned my wife next.…
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the evaluation of Finnish IT projects on a national level
This statement by the NAO (National Audit Office, ‘Valtiontalouden tarkastusvirasto’ in Finnish) does not give high credits to the impact of public-led information technology projects. It states that – the concrete impacts on local geographic levels have been mild, compared tothe substantial financial bets placed in these projects– the goals set in these IT projects…