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Story: Row over £30bn cost of ID cards

Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 4 November 2005, 11:45 PM)

As usual in IT projects. The devil is in the details. Easily overlooked (or played down) by those with a "birds eye view" and happening to be the ones signing the deals (payed for with tax money).

When the organizations answer to symptom solving is huge system overhauls the real cause of the problem can usually be find in the higher (organizational) layers involved. And usually it turns out to be a lack of understanding (or seriously underestimating) the issues (details) involved.

In short. Most problems are caused not by technical issues but more by unrealistic political expectations. The biggest problems are usually caused when technology is expected to solve political causes. Certainly where politics dictates what technologies to use to solve political issues.