Yet another California government tech fail

Long time readers of my blog know that I mention each and every technology failure accomplished by our state officials. Billion dollar web site for the judiciary, two or three failure to upgrade DMV systems. Now we currently have state Controller Chiang fucking things up. Soon the California department of State will fuck up their attempt to upgrade corporate charter applications.
Dan Walters: $250 million failure is sadly common

A scathing report came out last week from California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s personal investigative staff on a new state payroll system that so far has cost a quarter-billion dollars, but remains inoperable. The Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes report used uncommonly harsh language to describe the debacle. “Unlike other big state computer failures, the 21st Century Project collapsed not once, but twice, despite multiple layers of oversight designed to spot trouble early and keep the complex and massive undertaking on track,” it said. “A review of hundreds of pages of documents and interviews with many of those involved show the project suffered from lapses in due diligence, a failure to resolve core issues raised early and often, chronic turnover in leadership and what may have been unrealistic expectations.” The report basically accuses Controller John Chiang’s office of misleading the Legislature and the public. Chiang finally canceled the project. Dan Walters

Look at Dan Walters title. We all knew that Chiang would fuck this up way before the project was even funded. 100% of these programs get fucked up. What's the problem? Chiang has been around long enough to know California bureaucrats always fuck these things up. Why didn't Chiang simply tell the legislature not to bother, the program will be fucked up, they always are, he knew that. Chiang is a corrupt idiot.

 What is the real solution? California government should not be allowed to touch anything tech until until the project is vetted by the open source software community. And California software engineers should insist, in fact, they should refuse to work with any idiot from the government until the project plan is released in total to the open software community. Otherwise, don't bother, California government idiots always fuck up.

If you want to track the bonehead government in California, I recommend you stay tuned to Dan Walters, he has been the goto guy for California fuck ups for 40 years.