Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours agoMore likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.
All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That’s not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 hours ago
92 million dollars over cost on a 4.1 million dollar project is not incompetence and mismanagement.
Doubling the cost of a project should have triggered reviews or an audit. 23x’ing the cost of a project is either corruption, or such gross negligence with public funds as to be criminal all on its own.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
The 4.1m was the budget for the front-end. The back-end changes were initially budgeted as 31m but tripled in cost as the project dragged on and contracts needed to be extended