Report slams offender management project

A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into the much-delayed project to build a single IT system to manage offenders in the UK has revealed a laundry list of management blunders, says Information Age.

Unrealistic planning, the failure to monitor the cost or progress of the project, poor structures of accountability and a “good news” culture, contributed to what the PAC describes as “singular example of comprehensively poor project management”.

According to the report, nobody was monitoring either the cost or the progress of the project for the first three years after its 2004 inception, “in part because the first senior responsible owner overseeing the project did not have relevant project experience or training”.

ThoughtWorks Studios, a supplier Agile ALM tools and training, has unveiled its Mingle project management tool, reports Reuters.

Features of Mingle 3.0 focus on new levels of collaborative communication and extending reporting and manager visibility across multiple projects for improved programme management.

In line with its new online collaboration capabilities, Mingle also is being integrated with Google Wave to further improve the communication and efficiency of development teams.

eSense, provider of IT-based business solutions, recently partnered with the Saudi-based Al-Rajhi Bank to develop an advanced enterprise project management (EPM) solution for the bank's head office in KSA, writes AME Info.

The Microsoft Office EPM solution is an end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio environment implemented by eSense to help the bank gain visibility, insight, and control across all work.

This is with the aim of enhancing decision-making, improving alignment with business strategy, maximising resource utilisation, and measuring and helping to increase operational efficiency.