1. (1) A real-estate group in the federal government cosponsored a data warehouse with the
IT department. A formal proposal was written by the IT department in which costs were
estimated at $600,000, the project duration was estimated to be eight months, and the
responsibility for funding was defined as the business unit's. The IT department
proceeded with the project before knowing whether the proposal was ever accepted.
The project actually lasted two years because requirements gathering took nine months
instead of one and a half months, the planned user base grew from 300 to 3,500, and the
approval process to buy technology for the project took a year. Three weeks prior to
technical delivery, the IT Director canceled the project. This failed endeavor cost the
organization 3 million dollars.
Why did this system fail? What could have been done to prevent this? (10 marks)