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    Farm subsidy I.T. fiasco

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    6 hours ago, GogsinBerkshire` said:

    I totally agree about the rudderless/blame game, however not about the detailed requirements spec.

    Almost every project I've seen with detailed requirements/design docs up front take much longer to complete & has so much waste it's unbelievable - mainly this problem stems from users/stakeholders not knowing in detail what they really want.

    Most good projects now have high-level design/requirements up front & this is broken down into more detailed requirements that go onto a backlog & are delivered to the end-user as quickly as possible - this way feedback is given repeatedly & this informs future requirements so the users/stakeholders get what they want, quicker. 

    Yeah that's actually a fair point - although as Renfrew says that sounds like an agile approach, which has its own pros and cons.

    Farm subsidy I.T. fiasco

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    12 hours ago, calmac_man said:

    "Programme governance has not been effective. Significant decisions were made outwith programme governance structures; strategic decisions took too long; and senior roles and responsibilities overlapped and did not operate as intended. The programme team and IT division also did not work as one team, with a lack of trust and blame culture hindering effective progress. There has been little accountability in the programme for IT delivery leading to ineffective challenge and oversight. Management failed to deal effectively with conflicts of interest; actions were taken but these were inadequate and arrangements were not sufficient to ensure value for money."

    I've been working in IT since 2003, and I've seen what is described above happening time and time again.  Too many projects end up completely rudderless with everyone blaming each other once the money has run out and not even half of the system is complete!  The worst of it is that it is completely avoidable, but no senior manager wants to hear about investing time and money developing a detailed requirements specification and low-level design, they just want project teams to "get on with it and get it built".

    The Budget

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    Not when tax credits are reduced at the same time.

    Under 25s without kids don't get working tax credits, and an over 25 without kids who is working full-time on the minimum wage gets £360 a year. Not exactly a kings ransom. Why not just tax them less? Just scrap the working tax credit while at the same time abolishing NI for workers earning less than the income tax threshold (although they'd probably need to take a nominal NI payment of £1 a year to ensure they have a NI contribution record to ensure they qualify for contributions based jobseekers and the state pension).

    The problem is that out of the three sources of taxation (consumption, income and wealth) we tax people too much on consumption and income, and not enough on wealth. So we penalise people for earning and spending while the wealthy hoard what they've got. Redistributing wealth across the economy gives it to people who will actually spend it and as a result creates jobs and growth. But I have little faith we will ever see a genuinely redistributive budget from Westminster in our lifetimes.

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