{"id":1927,"date":"2008-10-23T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:44:42","slug":"state-of-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"State 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>State of Wisconsin<br \/>\nProject name : <\/strong>EnABLES (Enhanced Automated Benefits Legal Enterprise Services)<br \/>\n<strong>Project type :<\/strong> Unemployment claims tracking<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Feb 2007<strong> Cost :<\/strong>$23M USD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nReplacement for a 1970&#8217;s system used for tracking unemployment claims cancelled after only 1 of 7 phases is successfully completed.\u00a0 Project plan called for an existing packaged software product to be purchased and customized to meet the needs of the State of Wisconsin.\u00a0 Customization proves to be more complex than anticipated and project is cancelled after the $10M spent on phase 2 fails to deliver a working system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong><br \/>\nUnderestimation of complexity,\u00a0cost and schedule (at point of cancellation projected budget had more than doubled).\u00a0\u00a0Failure to review business process prior to starting the project and an unwillingness to adapt business processes to match functionality available in the packaged system.\u00a0 Lack of planning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>References to this project have been removed from the internet.<\/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. State of Wisconsin Project name : EnABLES (Enhanced Automated Benefits Legal Enterprise Services) Project type : Unemployment claims tracking Date : Feb 2007 Cost :$23M USD Synopsis : Replacement for a 1970&#8217;s system used [&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-1927","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\/1927","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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}