It has fallen to Bryan Glick, the estimable editor of Computer Weekly, to perform the first post mortem on the Rural Payments Agency's (RPA) computerised Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) which was discontinued yesterday and replaced with paper – "successive software releases failed to resolve the problems with the mapping tool".
Saturday, 21 March 2015
The system is fine. It's the users that don't work
It has fallen to Bryan Glick, the estimable editor of Computer Weekly, to perform the first post mortem on the Rural Payments Agency's (RPA) computerised Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) which was discontinued yesterday and replaced with paper – "successive software releases failed to resolve the problems with the mapping tool".
Friday, 20 March 2015
Agile@DEFRA
Just another government IT failure, BBC news website:
Or is it?
A multi-million pound government IT system to process EU subsidy payments for farmers has been largely abandoned following "performance problems".The system will be re-launched next week with farmers asked to submit Basic Payment Scheme claims on paper forms.Farmers say they have struggled with the £154m website for months ...
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Budget travel to Estonia
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his 2015 Budget report yesterday.
The media have clocked all the good jokes, please see for example How George Osborne's Budget jokes cost Britain £81m.
The media have clocked all the good jokes, please see for example How George Osborne's Budget jokes cost Britain £81m.
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
The lesson of the web? There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. Secure. Website.
There is no such thing as a secure website.
You know that.
You've read the papers, listened to the radio, watched TV and browsed the web. You know Sony were hacked. You know JP Morgan Chase were hacked. And Lockheed Martin and the US State Department.
You know that. They know it and so does everyone else – there is no such thing as a secure website.
Knowing that, if someone offers you a web service and promises that it's secure, how do you react?
You know that.
You've read the papers, listened to the radio, watched TV and browsed the web. You know Sony were hacked. You know JP Morgan Chase were hacked. And Lockheed Martin and the US State Department.
You know that. They know it and so does everyone else – there is no such thing as a secure website.
Knowing that, if someone offers you a web service and promises that it's secure, how do you react?