Binners - The public sector - Too much authority with too little accountability.
Last I heard contract negotiations had been outsourced to Serco.
The public sector - [s]Too much authority with too little accountability[/s] full of seconded big group accountants and management consultants
Fixed, no [upfront] charge.
[i]I reckon if the Govt were to double what they pay their techies, PMs and BAs they'd end up saving a shedload.[/i]
The problem is with the senior leadership, not the people on the ground IME.
I currently work in the NHS after the best part of 30 years in the private sector.
While I've worked with many poor quality Managers over the years, most were at more junior levels in the private sector - here they seem to sit higher up the 'food chain'...
Pieface - MemberNone of this is exclusive to the public sector.
Absolutely this- every organisation I've worked in whether it's public or private has had the same fundamental problems. The differences are generally ones of scale, and accountability- ie, it's our money, not a shareholders. But the entire path to failure is the same, right down to the refusal to accept there's even a problem (battling our last massive IT failure while reading top management reports about how it'd been "launched succesfully"- because the useless mis-specced unfit for purpose piece of crap had indeed launched succesfully, they just didn't mention that it was useless.)
