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Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n Department for Transport – UK<\/strong> Synopsis :<\/strong> Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong> Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Department for Transport – UK Project name : Shared Services Date : May 2008 Cost :$160M Synopsis : Program to improve efficiency in the UK’s Department of Transport ends up costing more than […]<\/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-2525","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\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nProject name : <\/strong>Shared Services
\nDate : <\/strong>May 2008 Cost :<\/strong>$160M<\/p>\n
\nProgram to improve efficiency in the UK’s Department of Transport ends up costing more than it saves.\u00a0 By sharing hardware and software services across the department the project was intended to save the organization $114M.\u00a0 A May 2008 study the the UK National Audit Office however finds the projects is in deep trouble and that the project will actually cost $160M more than it saves.<\/p>\n
\nIn the words of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Edward Leigh MP “The Department for Transport planned and implemented its shared corporate services project with stupendous incompetence. This is one of the worst cases of project management seen by this committee.”\u00a0 Other contributors include; Underestimation of cost.\u00a0Excessive schedule pressure resulting in inadequate procurement and testing. Poor requirements definition.\u00a0 Lack of vendor management.\u00a0 Poor quality implementation.<\/p>\n\n