Citation[]
General Accounting Office, Information Technology: Government-Wide Guidelines and Management Assistance Center Needed To Improve ADP Systems Development (AFMD-81-20) (Feb. 20, 1981) (full-text).
Overview[]
In more than 57 reports in the past 10 years, the GAO has identified management weaknesses in the design and development of large, complex Federal data processing systems. These systems:
- were not cost effective
- did not meet user needs
- had prolonged development cycle and cost overruns, or
- simply did not work.
The GAO suggests a framework of principles and procedures for managing systems development which could be the basis for issuing Government-wide guidelines. The earlier recommendation that a management assistance center for computer software and systems development be established was reiterated.