{"id":536,"date":"2025-08-12T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/?p=536"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:21:02","slug":"egco343-assignment-1-an-expensive-false-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"EGCO343: Assignment 1 &#8211; An Expensive False Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A real-estate group in the federal government cosponsored a data warehouse with the IT department. A formal proposal was written by IT in which costs were estimated at $800,000, the project duration was estimated to be eight months, and the responsibility for funding was defined as the business unit\u2019s.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The IT department proceeded with the project before hearing whether the proposal was ever accepted. The project actually lasted two years because requirements gathering took nine months instead of one and a half, the planned user base grew from 200 to 2,500, and the approval process to buy technology for the project took a year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three weeks prior to technical delivery, the IT Director canceled the project. This failed Endeavor cost the organization $2.5 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">QUESTIONS:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why did this system fail?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why would a company spend money and time on a project and then cancel it?\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What could have been done to prevent this?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Each group answer all questions in this assignment post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Deadline: 20 August 2025<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTIONS: Each group answer all questions in this assignment post. Deadline: 20 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egco.org\/design\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}