Well, as a little follow up from a post I made almost a year ago when they tried to implement the outdated American health-care system Millenium in my hometown (and intended for the whole region. We were just first), and had to pause it and revert to the old systems after just 3 days. The report that analyzed what went wrong just came out. And it seems that meeting the deadline was the only thing of importance. That the system didn't work, and that the staff had not anywhere near enough training didn't matter to the people in charge. Unfortunately the politicians and people highest up in the project chain gets a pass in the report according to local news as they had not been made aware of the true situation.
The recommendation in the report seems to be to scrap the system, as it is not certain that it can be salvaged. Trying to fix it will cost an estimated another 5.5 Billion (US-style, not European style) SEK in excess of the 3.7 Billion that had already been put into it last year. So instead they recommend creating a system made up of different modules instead of this one massive system. The estimated cost for that; 11 Billion, and will be estimated to take another 10 years.. Only taxpayer money, so who cares...
And it will take a number of months before they actually do decide on what route they will take.
Did I mention that they have during this year tried to fix the problems, and in the region still have had hundred+ consultants and staff working on things related to it during this time. No mention of the added cost for that..
This project should go down in history as a lesson on how NOT to do things. I mean not even the worst SAP-installations here in Sweden (have not heard about a single installation that have been a success according to the metrics "on time, on budget, and according to specs.") messed up this bad.
