Monthly Archives: December 2013

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30% write offs are not normal in the real world

Reading the reports of questions to Ian Duncan-Smith by the Work and Pensions select committee one is left baffled by the casual attitude of the minister and DWP officials to a £40m write off of software code for the Universal Credit system that is effectively useless. What planet are these guys on? A couple of choice quotes via the Guardian from IDS and his minions: On rewriting code (Mike Driver, Financial Director) Glenda Jackson is asking questions […]