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  • Pay system not properly tested: report

    Queensland Health's bungled new payroll system was not properly tested and was rolled out without a back-up plan to deal with failures, an Auditor-General's report says.

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    Sydney Water blows multiple IT project budgets

    The auditor-general, Peter Achterstraat, has flagged several IT project cost blowouts and delays at Sydney Water, including an overspend of $34.3 million on a customer management system. In the auditor-general's report to parliament 2009 volume seven, which focuses on Environment, Climate Change and Water organisations, Achterstraat identified Sydney Water’s Customer Management System Stage 1 had overshot its original $21 million budget and was now forecast to cost $55.3 million.

  • Auditor-General not happy with Victorian smart meter rollout

    The Victorian rollout of smart meters has been criticised by the state's Auditor-General's Office. In a report titled, Towards a ‘smart grid’ — the roll-out of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, the Auditor-General hit out at the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project, which was kicked off in 2006 to replace accumulation meters in 2.4 million homes and small businesses with smart meters by 2013.

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