| The FBI Virtual Case File | IS 430 - Fundamentals of IT Project Management | | | | Table of Contents Summary2 How I researched the case3 Case Discussion3 What I have learned in this case study5 Works Cited7 Summary The Virtual Case File (VCF) from the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) was a failed technology project that cost the United States Government over $170 million dollars including $105 million worth in unusable code. The FBI desperately needed an upgrade to
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TROUBLE IN PARADISE FBI AND THE VCF PROJECT Michael Muller‚ Clarissa Francis‚ Tolulope Akinyemi 11/16/2012 ABSTRACT This study is about failure---more specifically‚ failure in the software industry. Failure is an attractive subject because everyone experiences it‚ allowing people to understand on a personal level what will work in business----and won’t. Failure is also a concept that is difficult to define‚ as there are many different academic opinions on the subject. The aim of this study
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Reasons for failure 5 4 Alternatives to prevent failure 8 5 Lessons for Management 10 6 References 11 1 Project Background Virtual Case File (VCF) was a software application developed for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) between 2000 and 2005. It was built to replace the FBI’s old case management system named Automated Case Support (ACS) system. VCF was a third component of FBI’s Trilogy Project. The first component of the Trilogy project was upgrading of software and hardware
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[Trilogy Case] | Virtual Case File | Executive Summary The FBI Information Technology Upgrade Project (FITUP) was initiated in 2000‚ and‚ after five years of cascading problems‚ was abandoned for the Sentinel project in 2005. Estimated to cost $170M‚ VCF went over budget by approximately $330M (Nelson 2007). The project was meant to modernize the FBI’s antiquated computer system and included “a case management system‚ an evidence management system‚ and a records management system” (Marchewka
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FBI Cases Operation Ghost Click International Cyber Ring That Infected Millions of Computers Dismantled 11/09/11 Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry. Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their
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FBI Case Study Assignment #1 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Project Overview 3 The key issues related to the failure of the project: 4 Resolution 4 Relevance to IT Project Management: 5 Key Takeaways: 7 Research Approach 7 References 8 Executive Summary: The “Who Killed the Virtual Case File?” case study is a clear example of project failure which resulted on not only balloon the cost of the project‚ but also loss that could be counted on millions of dollars. Because
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and background of the case As a part of the FBI ’s $581 million "Trilogy" program‚ the Virtual Case File (VCF) was a software application that intended to facilitate the case file management for FBI agents. VCF faced a vast array of trouble‚ finally convincing the Bureau to abandon the VCF project after years of development imposing $170 on US taxpayers. VCF would have been a huge step in the improvement of the paper-intensive and outdated IT infrastructure for the FBI. VCF was designed to integrate
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References: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/who-killed-the-virtual-case-file http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-virtual-case-file-system file:///C:/Users/srilakshmi/Downloads/4%20CIIMA2011-10-2%20Marchewka%201-14.pdf http://www.computerworld.com/article/2543770/it-management/survey--poor-communication-causes-most-it-project-failures.html http://www
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Which system script contains the default runlevel? Pg425 /etc/inittab Use the following information for study points 3-5: A system administrator is manually setting up a new daemon named analyzed. The daemon should be set to run at runlevel 3 and be the very last daemon to load. 3. What should the link to start the daemon be named? Pg 426‚427 s99analyzed 4. What command would stop the analyzed daemon? Pg 427 service analyzed stop 5. What command would tell the system at which
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The FBI Case Study 3 — The FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the U.S. government‚ the FBI‚ was forced to scrap its $170 million virtual case file (VCF) management system. Official reports blamed numerous delays‚ cost overruns‚ and incompatible software. But a deeper examination of the cause of this failure uncovered issues of control‚ culture‚ and incompatible organizational systems. Among its many duties‚ the FBI is charged with the responsibility to fight crime and terrorism. To do so
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