@davidyorke said:
Colorado just reformed its IT organization by giving more responsibility to the state's CIO. Will this be enough to stop the history of less than stellar performance?
Broken Voter Registration Database, Unemployment Insurance, Vehicle Registration, Benefits Management System, and an ERP System.
Attempting to fix problems caused by an incompetent bureacracy by creating a new government bureau is a WTF.
@davidyorke said:
What is wrong with Colorado?
The state of Colorado is a typical government employer- instead of an at-will merit-based system we have a classification system that rewards seniority instead of value. Directors are rewarded for justifying bigger budgets, and punished for running their department like a business. This will never change, as it is impossible to get elected in a state election without the support of the government employees ("don't touch our pension and classification system!"). Don't forget that many of us will be unionizing soon- not only will a suggestion of touching this system make a politician unelectable, it will also result in organized labor strikes.
As a classified employee, my reward for hard work is more work, and the only way the people who get things done will ever get a decent raise is by leaving. Leadership tends to be made up purely of government politicians who have no experience in large-scale IT projects. The press doesn't report on our successes or compare our failed projects with our successful projects (and who has managed them) - instead they interview some politician who explains that a vendor's contractors didn't complete the work he was tasked with.