Where are the I.T. project managers?

It has been my observation that lousy I.T. project management is the curse of Australia. I saw a relatively simple migration project blow out from $1M to over $7M. Too big to fail and all that.

I have seen back-end web app projects deliver similar results. The project manager's main motivation was less about making the end product work and more about making themselves look good. Project managers that are not.

So reading about this Defence I.T. project going bad is no surprise.

"It has left a lot of the operators of this system screaming and throwing their hands up in the air. Unfortunately, quite often a lot of the transactions simply won't work, for unknown reasons."

Yeah. Seen that before. Define "unknown reasons".