Project management will be an
ongoing thing in business, with technology and other aspects. One of the main
things that will need to be considered is information security. This week for
class we were all asked to write a paper based on failed IT project management.
While it doesn’t happen that often, it does happen. There were several
different scenarios where failed IT had happened.
I one, the U.S. Air Force had spent
$1 billion over seven years to develop a single system to merge 240 separate
systems. This Expeditionary Combat Support System was eventually stopped. The
prime contractor was terminated from the project, after they had been given a
stop work order the year prior, due to poor performance. Could this poor
performance have led to a breach of information security? What information was
contained in the 240 other systems they were trying to merge into this one
system? Could that information have been breached?
Another incident involved the
Canadian government developing a new payroll system. When the payroll system
was brought online it was a mess. People’s information was hacked, employees
didn’t receive a paycheck for months, many of them having to sell their homes
in order to get by. Was this project pushed too quickly with not much, if any,
testing before it went fully online? Could the headaches have been prevented if
there was thorough testing done ahead of time to make sure the system was ready
to go? Were there higher ups sticking to a certain deadline for the system to
go active? Was there a lack of communication about the potential problems if
the system went active at that time?
These are just a couple examples of IT
failure in project management. Information security is critical to systems that
are online and running, but it is also critical in project management to make
sure these problems don’t occur while developing a new project.
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