July 16th, 2007
Ignoring a Problem Doesn't Make it Go Away
An audit of the Massachusetts state crime lab revealed that evidence in 16,000 criminal cases was never analyzed.
Denial and information hiding are frequent components of the project failure lifecycle, whether in the crime lab or in the IT world. Eventually, the hidden problems see the light of day, usually after lots of wasted time and money.
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Michael Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures. Click here to discuss this post with him on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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