Ineffective management strategies made CGI to lose prestigious U.S. Government`s Healthcare.gov software project
The unsuccessful project of Healthcare.gov was serious enough to have a need of the Mr. Obama to make a statement of regret to the American people on person TV was an integral failure of management. The probable cause of failure may be as follows: • Lack of Expertise
CGI management failed to use highly skilled employees who may act immediately for the changes. When an organization is involved in this highly rated government project the system integrations have to be done at pinnacle level. Healthcare project had 55 participating firms and more than 200 individual interfaces to external systems and busy time schedule, (DePillis, …show more content…
If any project has given a deadline where we can 't alter at any of it, make sure plans are so made that testing has to be done immensely, which is not happening in this project which may be the biggest error that management couldn 't afford to. Tests that are run poorly designed filed to withstand expected loads. These faults made system would never allow users have a nice time in responding to their requests and failing to complete their transactions. Quality control was highly not sufficient with common cases not tested as it has to …show more content…
It is evident that when goals are certain employees perform to their potential which approves the enterprise to gain from employee goal setting theory. Dr. Edwin Locke SMART theory of goal setting is about quick, sharp mind criteria has need for goals to be special, measurable, getable, on the point and time-bound specificity keeps your goals straightforward, well-formed and detailed (Fusion, 2011, Demand Media). Time-bound goals keep your work structured and gain a sense of need for doing now to push you into acting.
Conclusion In conclusion, project failure can be minimized or prevented with good project planning. When project is getting out of hand there are skills to recognize and trained manager lowers project failure or recover ASAP. So project manager needs to be trained in such a way not only recover but also saves it from
The unsuccessful project of Healthcare.gov was serious enough to have a need of the Mr. Obama to make a statement of regret to the American people on person TV was an integral failure of management. The probable cause of failure may be as follows: • Lack of Expertise
CGI management failed to use highly skilled employees who may act immediately for the changes. When an organization is involved in this highly rated government project the system integrations have to be done at pinnacle level. Healthcare project had 55 participating firms and more than 200 individual interfaces to external systems and busy time schedule, (DePillis, …show more content…
If any project has given a deadline where we can 't alter at any of it, make sure plans are so made that testing has to be done immensely, which is not happening in this project which may be the biggest error that management couldn 't afford to. Tests that are run poorly designed filed to withstand expected loads. These faults made system would never allow users have a nice time in responding to their requests and failing to complete their transactions. Quality control was highly not sufficient with common cases not tested as it has to …show more content…
It is evident that when goals are certain employees perform to their potential which approves the enterprise to gain from employee goal setting theory. Dr. Edwin Locke SMART theory of goal setting is about quick, sharp mind criteria has need for goals to be special, measurable, getable, on the point and time-bound specificity keeps your goals straightforward, well-formed and detailed (Fusion, 2011, Demand Media). Time-bound goals keep your work structured and gain a sense of need for doing now to push you into acting.
Conclusion In conclusion, project failure can be minimized or prevented with good project planning. When project is getting out of hand there are skills to recognize and trained manager lowers project failure or recover ASAP. So project manager needs to be trained in such a way not only recover but also saves it from