Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, says the alternative would have been worse
Source: Fixing Phoenix payroll problems cost Ottawa $5.1-billion, says federal official
fta:
The initial amount spent to create Phoenix was $309-million, according to departmental spokesperson Jullian Paquin.
Phoenix’s origins date back to 2009. It was originally designed to decrease the cost of processing the federal government’s massive payroll.
But the project failed on launch after being rolled out with no project oversight, according to a federal audit. The original price tag provided by IBM to implement Phoenix in 2012 was $274-million.
so this is an example of the “gold” i find on reddit; in this case, someone whos; already read it has highlighted the important paragraphs; 21, 22, 24, 32, 33, 49:[expand title=” <– click to see!”]
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also of value is the link to the report; yes, i could have found it, but sometime that can be a lot of work; comments like this on reddit or fark, or otehrs, leads me directly tothe relevant info.
Report 1—Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay System
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