Social affairs Citizens see Citysoftnet report as a "handbook of failure"
The City of Bern should finally learn the lessons from its IT debacles. This is what the GLP and FDP demanded on Tuesday following the publication of the Citysoftnet investigation report. The Center Party and SVP want to bring about measures by means of motions in the City Council.
25.06.2024, 13:58
25.06.2024, 17:18
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The external investigation revealed serious shortcomings in project management, resource planning and management competence, the GLP stated. The City of Bern urgently needs to take measures to better plan and implement future digitalization projects.
"The report reads almost like a guidebook on how digitalization projects should never be carried out," said GLP city councillor Corina Liebi according to the press release. The FDP came to a similar conclusion. Too little had been learned from the equally unsuccessful IT school project base4kids2.
Central office called for
The "Handbook of Failure" shows that pretty much everything was done wrong, said FDP city councillor Nik Eugster. Large IT and transformation projects should be managed across all departments by a central city office with the appropriate competencies and resources, the FDP demanded.
A "business-as-usual" approach is not enough for the Center Party either, as it announced in a communiqué on Tuesday. Its core demand is for a centralized and professional unit. At the next city council meeting, the centrist group intends to submit a corresponding motion.
Questions remain unanswered
According to the press release, the investigation report has also left questions unanswered. For example, the Center Party wants to know why working standard solutions from other larger municipalities in the canton of Bern were not taken into consideration.
The SVP also has a number of questions, which will submit an urgent interpellation next Thursday and request an investigation by the Audit Committee, according to the press release. The SVP has doubts as to whether the city had fully informed the investigating company PWC.
