{"id":1915,"date":"2008-10-23T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:57:45","slug":"university-of-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"University of Wisconsin"},"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>University of Wisconsin<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Project type :<\/strong> Payroll and benefits system<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> May 2006<strong> Cost :<\/strong>$28M USD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nPayroll and benefits system project is abandoned after 5 years of effort.\u00a0 Board of governors (regents) had not received a single report on the project in its 5 years and was unaware that the\u00a0University\u00a0was facing a large scale project failure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong><br \/>\nLack of management oversight. Poor leadership.\u00a0 Lack of planning. Bureaucratic infighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/million-software-scrapped-by-uw-system-officials-regret-the-loss\/article_d719f8a3-a718-59c6-8159-b3c27e23bf65.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$26 Million software scrapped by uw system officials regret the loss but believe a different vendor will prove better in the long run<\/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. University of Wisconsin Project type : Payroll and benefits system Date : May 2006 Cost :$28M USD Synopsis : Payroll and benefits system project is abandoned after 5 years of effort.\u00a0 Board of governors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[39,132,93,147],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-private-sector","category-failed-project","tag-failed","tag-private-sector","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}