{"id":1818,"date":"2008-10-15T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2016-07-27T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:58:25","slug":"general-register-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"General Register Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211; a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Registry Office System &#8211; UK<br \/>\nDate :<\/strong> Mar 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Cost :<\/strong>$12M<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<br \/>\n<\/strong>New system\u00a0to register births, marriages and\u00a0deaths across the UK purchased from a US company and adapted for use in the UK.\u00a0 Implementation results in\u00a0chaos when system cannot handle volume of data being processed.\u00a0 Registry offices officially told to abandon the system after just 2 months of use.\u00a0\u00a0The &#8220;robustness and functionality&#8221; of the system\u00a0had been\u00a0questioned before its launch, but concerns\u00a0raised by operational staff were dismissed rather than being addressed prior to the production roll-out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<br \/>\n<\/strong>Volume related performance problems.\u00a0\u00a0Data being &#8220;lost&#8221; after it has been entered.\u00a0 Some features from the US version that\u00a0were not applicable in the UK environment remained a part of the design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article1739313.ece\">Chaos as registry offices are told to abandon computer system<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/letters\/article1739020.ece\">Registry office meltdown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211; a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Registry Office System &#8211; UK Date : Mar 2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cost :$12M Synopsis : New system\u00a0to register births, marriages and\u00a0deaths across the UK purchased from a US company and adapted for use in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}