It is time to enforce existing best practice, not produce more unnecessary guidelines

摘要

Radical recommendations aimed at improving the success rate of central government IT projects were made by Computer Weekly last week in written submissions to a Parliamentary committee, which is investigating IT best practice. This publication has advised the government to enforce compliance with best practice by introducing legislation, and to strengthen accountability by publishing Gateway reviews of major government projects. Computer Weekly has also drawn Parliament's attention to the occasional abuse by government departments of the phrase "commercially confidential". Although many documents need to be confidential, Computer Weekly has provided evidence of documents being unnecessarily categorised in this manner.