Friday, January 14, 2005

UK.gov to hire IT project SWAT team /| The Register, 13 Jan 2005

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/govtech_overseers/
Lucy Sherriff
"The government is to bring in a team of IT specialists to oversee big technology projects and prevent them from failing. Chief information officer Ian Watmore described the team as a 'heavy hitter brigade' when he announced the scheme at a government CIO meeting last week.
The team will be managed by the e-government unit, but will be funded by individual departments as and when they call upon its services, according to Computer Weekly. The trade magazine reports that the team has yet to be selected, but that Watmore hopes to attract six to ten leading consultants."