INTRODUCTION
We have decided upon the Queensland Health and Payroll System as the subject due to its significant prominence regarding IT-related projects, particularly due to it failing to meet expectations and gouging exorbitant costs and exceeding deadlines.
Queensland Health Payroll System is one of the famously failed projects among Australia public section.
In this report, we first introduce the company profile.
Furthermore, in the analysis part, we will look into the technical reason and management reason which lead to the failure.
Then we will describe some of the import lessons that we learned from this project which can help us to avoid such a big failure in an information system.
COMPANY PROFILE
The Project was undertaken by three
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Their requirements were:
• To integrate and rationalize government payroll services across health department and agencies in Queensland.
• To develop centralized shared payroll services state-wide. This could help them in reducing the number of employees engaged in those activities in the entire state.
To replace out-of-support LATTICE payroll system with SAP system. This could reduce their acquisition and licensing costs.
• To bring simplification in systems and applications by implementing shared payroll services initiatives.
• To produce high-quality corporate functions across the whole of government and make the process cost-effective. (Chesterman AO RFD, 2013) (Manongdo)
PROJECT TIMELINE
The Project follows the following sequence of events (AAP, 2010):
• The project started in 2nd July 2007 and the request for Info for interested clients sent
• On 25th July 2007 detail proposal request to address the organizational specifications sent to interested
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• October 19, 2009 - Decision not to go live again
• The first test compared only 10% data and showed the discrepancy. The second test conducted in February 2010 showed the discrepancy. QH accepted the risks and opted to undergo live without testing the full functionalities in March 2010. INTERNAL STRUCTURES (COMMUNICATIONS)
There are two main parties involved: IBM and Queensland Health with CorpTech as the link between the two. But Queensland Health in itself has many sub-sections and groups, and each of these groups will have its hierarchies and means of communications. We couldn’t find any internal organization information from IBM in this project, but we assume that IBM will also have many internal teams that will work independently on parts of the project and thus they might also be communicating with other IBM teams or client teams.
These are the real complicity face, but they’ve all been hidden from the project. Thus, effective communication involving some many stakeholders was one of the challenges of the project.
The subgroups are:
• 15 legacy payroll systems in 13 different government departments
• Providers SAP, Aurion, LATTICE, and
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