On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > 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.....
My suggestion is that management get paid on effectiveness - - ie poor outcomes first wage reductions (starting at 25% and growing quickly) and termination for outcomes that just don't work (that's with an independent review to make sure that something wasn't torpedoed because of an even goofier more senior exec!). How would that work you think? Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
