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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015 IT: Total value of current, planned state computer system projects is nearly $1 billion Continued from Page 1A in February 2014 “as a direct response to a major IT project for Gov. Kate Brown, wrote that was ill-prepared to move in an email that it was simply to its execution phase ...” an “opportunity to consider There are plenty of other that DAS has a new interim high-stakes state IT projects director, and whether or not underway and planned for the agency response letter the future. The state is work- QHHGHG WR UHÀHFW WKDW 8SRQ ing on several that are each further consideration, it did worth at least $20 million, not.” Naughton made only and the total value of current a few minor word changes and planned state computer before signing off on the re- system projects is nearly $1 sponse Jordan had written. billion, according to auditors. An independent IT ser- The projects include replac- vices review that Brown ing many of the core appli- called for last week will cations at the Department of cover management issues in Revenue, and developing a addition to security issues, new child support computer Grainger wrote. Brown an- system for the Oregon De- nounced her plan for the re- partment of Justice. view in a press release last The Department of Ad- week acknowledging a data breach at the DAS-managed state data center. Despite the audit’s focus on IT project management, it did not examine what au- ditors described as “arguably the worst computer develop- ment failure in state history,” Cover Oregon. Oregon spent $300 million in federal mon- ey primarily to set up an on- line exchange for people to purchase health insurance, plus at least $26 million in state money for related proj- ects, The Associated Press re- ported. The exchange website failed to launch as planned in October 2013. Meanwhile, the state and technology company Oracle American ,QF KDYH ¿OHG GXHOLQJ ODZ- suits over the project. Green wrote in an email that this audit largely fol- lowed up on problems iden- WL¿HGLQSUHYLRXVDXGLWVDQG “We have not audited Cover Oregon because it is current- ly being looked at by federal agencies and a host of other consultants for the state, in- cluding those hired by the *RYHUQRU¶V2I¿FH´ Jordan alluded to Cover Oregon in his response to the DXGLW ¿QGLQJV ZULWLQJ WKDW the new IT project manage- ment strategy was introduced ministrative Ser- the Secretary of vices directly 6WDWH¶VRI¿FHIRXQG manages some of in 2001 that DAS these IT projects had not written ad- and assists differ- equate guidelines ent agencies on for other agencies others. Auditors to develop comput- found DAS’ project er systems, and in management was fact the agency had ³D VLJQL¿FDQW VWHS mishandled one of in the right direc- its own major IT Alex tion,” but weak- projects. Pettit nesses remained State CIO Alex across all state IT projects. Pettit started to develop a For example, DAS did not new IT project management assign enough staff to han- strategy in 2014, but it is still dle project management, and not complete. For example, the consequences for failing auditors found DAS has not to meet project management \HWLGHQWL¿HGZKLFKVWDWHHP- goals were unclear. ployees are responsible for The problems have long oversight of various aspects been known. Auditors from of IT projects under this pro- cess. Auditors attributed the SUREOHP WR D VWDI¿QJ VKRUW- age at DAS: the agency has three to four analysts avail- able at any time to “evaluate multiple projects and provide needed guidance to agen- cies,” and they have little or no time to work on the proj- ect management strategy. In 2014, these analysts were re- sponsible for oversight of 30 ongoing state IT projects and gave conditional approval to an additional 41 new state agency projects. “Given this workload, WKLVOHYHORIVWDI¿QJLVLQVXI- ¿FLHQW WR HIIHFWLYHO\ GHYHO- op and fully implement the concepts associated with the (project management) mod- el,” auditors wrote. Matt Shelby, a spokesman for DAS, said the agency was aware it needed more employees to manage these projects and that is why it asked lawmakers for more money to hire additional staff. Shelby said Pettit also worked with lawmakers to draft House Bill 3099 to as- sign more authority to the FKLHILQIRUPDWLRQRI¿FHU7KH bill is currently scheduled for an April 2 hearing at the House Committee On Con- sumer Protection and Gov- ernment Effectiveness. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Low Prices. 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