{"id":1865,"date":"2008-10-18T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:19:15","slug":"dept-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Dept. Homeland Security"},"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;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Department of Homeland Security &#8211; Emerge2 Project &#8211; USA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Sep 2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Cost :<\/strong>\u00a0 $20M<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nPlans for the Emerge2 system (Electronically Managing Enterprise Resources for Government Efficiency and Effectiveness ) are scuttled after it becomes clear the project has headed off in the wrong direction.\u00a0 Original plan called for the development of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that would integrate all of the divisions that make up the Department of Homeland Security, but early problems left the project fatally flawed.\u00a0 In the words of the department\u2019s chief financial officer, David Norquist,\u00a0\u201cWith respect to our systems-modernization efforts, let me state that Emerge2 is dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Although the project ended in failure, the DHS is due credit for cancelling the project after only $20M of the $229M budget was spent.\u00a0 Many such failures are allowed to proceed even though people know there are significant problems, resulting in significantly higher losses than in this case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the words of David Norquist &#8220;The approach was not balanced enough across the framework of people, policies, processes, systems and assurance\u2014it was too heavily weighted on systems transformation to lead changes in the other areas&#8221;\u00a0( see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=676\">Techcentric Myopia <\/a>pattern)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gcn.com\/2006\/09\/dhs-scuttles-emerge2-program\/302303\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DHS Scuttles Emerge2 Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fcw.com\/workforce\/2006\/03\/emerge2s-failure-sends-dhs-back-to-drawing-board\/220017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emerge2&#8217;s failure sends DHS back to the drawing board<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Department of Homeland Security &#8211; Emerge2 Project &#8211; USA Date : Sep 2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cost :\u00a0 $20M Synopsis : Plans for the Emerge2 system (Electronically Managing Enterprise Resources for Government Efficiency and Effectiveness ) are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[96,130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-failed-erp-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\/1865","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=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}