Back in 2018 the Victorian government set up a dashboard to show the status of IT projects valued at over $1m as an attempt to be transparent and accountable in the face of constant budget blowouts. Fast forward 5 years later and that dashboard hasn't been updated in over 12 months. Projects like WorkSafe's data analytics initially budgeted at $1.17m blew out last year to $25m, Barwon Health's automated rostering system was given $3m in 2018 but still isn't complete, as is a case management system for the Magistrates' and Children's courts valued at $89m that started in 2016. It wouldn't be so bad if the only problem is projects spending more than planned, but they aren't even getting done, let alone on time, and the system the government itself created to expose these failings isn't even being used!
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