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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flatsville who wrote (8681)	9/15/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: B.K.Myers	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

>>Earlier in the day, the White House budget office reported that the U.S. government has completed 97 percent of Year 2000 fixes on its most important computer systems at a cost of $8.34 billion.<< So what's going on here. For the past 2-3 years we have been talking about "mission critical" system. Then a couple of months ago the executive branch started talking about "high impact" systems. Now they are talking about their "most important" systems. It seems to me that the only way the government can achieve Y2K compliance is by redefining the scope of the problem. ("It depends on how you define "is""). On almost all computer software projects that I have worked on over the past couple of decades, "scope creep" was a major problem. Now, when it comes to Y2K, we don't see any scope creep. Instead, the scope of the project seems to be decreasing. Why is this? I can only think of one logical reason. The work can't be completed in time, so you simple reduce the size of the project and announce that you are on schedule. How else can you reconcile the differences between what the White House budget office is reporting and what House of Representatives latest Y2K report states. (See High Impact Federal Programs Year 2000 Readiness) house.gov According to this report, only 7 of the 43 high impact programs are now Y2K compliant. This is NOT the 97 percent that the White House says are complete. This 97 percent is NOT reflected in the September 1999 Report Card. Nor does it agree with the 95% complete reported in the September 1999 scorecard. So where is the federal government in its Y2K project? What is the scope of their Y2K project? It is awful late to be asking these core questions. I guess only time will tell.