Is there any IT project they can manage properly? The SCOPE secret communications project, run by the Cabinet Office, has wasted tens of millions. Meanwhile the spooks have been running a little side-project of their own
“We are doing really quite well on this more modest CLiC programme, which is not being run out of the Cabinet Office, it is being run out of SIS and GCHQ” said the head of MI6
“It is regrettable that this same practical and incremental approach was not adopted in the planning of the SCOPE programme” says the parliamentary oversight committee
‘Practical and incremental approach’ – build it in quick manageable pieces, proving and adapting as you go. That’s how today’s leading software companies do it. Our Government is stuck in the last century with the likes of Microsoft and IBM.
Spooks scramble to replace failed secret messaging system – The Register.
