{"id":3188,"date":"2011-06-01T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:17:48","slug":"city-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"City of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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City of New York <\/strong>– USA
\n Project :<\/strong> CityTime
\nProject type : <\/strong>Employee time recording
\nDate :<\/strong> Dec 2010 Cost :<\/strong>$540M over original budget<\/p>\n

Synopsis :<\/strong>
\nCity’s new time recording system for employees goes 10 times over budget and is delivered 6 month late. The 10 year project was originally estimated at $63M but ended up costing in excess of $600m. \u00a0Although the system is eventually launched and reaches operational status, investigations reveal suspected fraud. \u00a0Several contractors are charged by federal prosecutors. \u00a0As a project, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is quoted as having said the project was a “disaster”.<\/p>\n

Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong>
\nFailure to establish and maintain appropriate financial controls result in suspected fraud.<\/p>\n

Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Fraud Charges in New York\u2019s Payroll Overhaul<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Company in CityTime Payroll Scandal to Pay $500 Million<\/a> – Added 14 Mar 2012<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. City of New York – USA Project : CityTime Project type : Employee time recording Date : Dec 2010 Cost :$540M over original budget Synopsis : City’s new time recording system for employees goes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[129,93,147],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","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\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}